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I agree, but what I was addressing is the deep state conspiracy accusations and your question about how believable the voters will think they are. As ...

I think we need to make a distinction between Trump supporters and those who voted for Trump. His staunchest supporters are likely to believe whatever...

I don't agree. Trump believes there is a "deep-state" conspiracy. His administration seems to accept it as truth. Senior White House policy adviser St...

Not just militia-types. Note Trump's inclusion of religion, as if impeaching him is somehow a threat to religious freedom. There is obviously no logic...

Except it is not just Trump. Peter Navarro, Mr. Trump’s trade adviser, on Fox Business Network, compared the Democrats to Soviet-era secret police and...

Yesterday Trump tweeted the following: This is demagoguery. Another example of Trump's willingness to tear apart the country to save himself. This is ...

You mean the right-leaning think tanks run by highly-educated, politically connected elites?

The anti-elite rhetoric has played itself out. If the elite want to discredit the elite then they discredit themselves. Trump, Barr, Pompeo cannot dis...

A preview of how things will unfold: Pompeo: What are these intimidation tactics? The attempt to dispose potential witnesses. Both Trump and Barr have...

Indeed we do! What is at issue is a self-serving president who puts his own interests ahead of those of the country and its allies, of a president who...

This is a serious and important point. It is fueled by Trump's paranoia that everyone is as untrustworthy and self-serving as he is and so out to get ...

The first time was many years ago when I was a student. Can't say I remember much about the book or the class except that we also read some of Lincoln...

One problem with this is that if one reads quickly without sufficient care and attention what one then returns to might not be what would be returned ...

Partisan lines are not immutable. It is importance once again to point to the distinction between impeachment and an impeachment inquiry. The purpose ...

A welcome diversion from NOS' incessant need to defend Trump.

'Being' is an abstraction, or as Aristotle might say a subtraction from some particular "this" - the sun or sea or animal or human, for example. It is...

We would be better off with a pineapple.

I will ask again: Was it a fabrication that Trump withheld military aid? Or that he expected reciprocity? Or that he asked for a favor regarding his p...

I think that pretty much sums it up. Trump does not believe his own national security agencies or their having gotten to the bottom of "this whole sit...

There is a very good reason I have not mentioned or addressed Schiff's "lies": as most here can see, Schiff's account of the phone call are consistent...

It is funny that NOS entered this discussion complaining about the hyperbole of those who oppose Trump but does the very thing he accuses others of. R...

A Trump tweet this morning (9/30): Is this a question or a threat? It is a perfect example of the way Trump operates. He leaves himself enough room to...

Do you have a reasonable expectation that he will repay the "loans"? It may be his sincere intent but how will he be able to do so? If his business is...

First, the concept of a singular cosmic being is a rather late development. Much earlier are the gods, often personified, with particular powers and d...

Impeachment and an impeachment inquiry are two very different things. As Pelosi knows, a rush to impeach is a mistake. The intent of the inquiry is to...

A few words on the problem of misologic. It occurs in the Phaedo. Socrates is about to die and the subject of discussion is the fate of the soul. He t...

From the letter: That is by definition a summary. What he presents are not the principle conclusions reached by Mueller. The differences between what ...

I think that this is based on a common but fundamentally misguided reading of Plato. Very briefly: the dialogues typically end in aporia, but the dang...

The instructor for my intro to philosophy class was a graduate of St. John's, but neither the philosophy major nor the undergraduate degree was based ...

Well the third time then you might be right. I thought the name sounded familiar. He translated Gadamer's Hegel's Dialectic, Dialogue and Dialectic, a...

I think we are going to be hearing a lot more about the unitary executive theory and the extent and limits of presidential power. Trump seems to think...

Yes. There may be rare cases of autodidacts who can do it alone, but far more common are those who fancy themselves autodidacts who cannot. We are in ...

Rather than compare the summaries you take Barr's word for it. You are either incapable of or unwilling to see how their accounts differ. Either way t...

Are they in agreement? Does Barr accurately represent what Mueller said? Here is one of many comparisons that can be found online: https://www.nytimes...

Challenging you to compare the Mueller report to Barr's summary is not an accusation. To make it easier compare Mueller's own summary to Barr's and ge...

It is mostly by way of example. One guiding principle is to assume the superiority of the author to the reader, that whatever problems or contradictio...

I do not think that we first understand and then interpret. Interpretation is the way in which we come to understand. It depends on the book and autho...

I think that part of the problem is that he runs the government in the same way he ran his business, where such "favors" are common practice. What is ...

It is no secret and not hard to see, but if you are going to learn you need to do the work yourself.

Follow the masters of interpretation. I am partial to Leo Strauss and Jacob Klein, especially their readings of the ancients, but the skills are trans...

Compare the Mueller report to Barr's summary.

Barr's loyalty to Trump rather than the country and his deceit may bring his down along with Trump. But he is in a unique position and he may still be...

I made the same point yesterday. Either NOS is unable to understand it or chooses to ignore it because it undermines his argument. If it is the former...

Start by researching the legal concepts of the presumption of innocence and probable cause.

Honestly, the sooner the better, but that is up to you. You seem to like the view.

First you would need to take your head out of your ass.

It is not. You are in over your head. You are throwing around legal terms now without any understanding of what they mean.

Yes, this was discussed in the hearings today. Just another attempt by Trump to obstruct justice under the rubric of executive privilege. Whatever the...

Mueller was quite clear that he was not going to prove guilt for the very reason that without an indictment there could be no due process, and he had ...

In that case, mind is not in some separate realm but within the realm of matter. There is a logical and evidential gap here. You have posited cosmic c...