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April 26, 2019 at 08:49
This review on Sedgwick’s blog looks noteworthy https://traditionalistblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/remarkable-new-book-draws-on-guenon.html
April 26, 2019 at 08:19
Check out Mark Sedgwick's blog. Also the publishing houses Sophia Perennis and the Author's List on World Wisdom. There's a huge literature in this su...
April 26, 2019 at 07:46
There is an informal school of thought called 'perennialism' or 'traditionalism', centred around the writings of a rather reclusive French convert to ...
April 26, 2019 at 04:01
It's really important that this gets through. Trump is establishing a meme, a lie, that 'the Mueller report exonerates him' when it doesn't - already ...
April 26, 2019 at 02:30
You haven't cited any facts in support of your view, other than Trump's fallacious assertion that he was totally exonerated by the Mueller report. So ...
April 26, 2019 at 02:28
'Everyone has a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts' ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
April 26, 2019 at 02:19
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/doj-mistakenly-reveals-indictment-against-wikileaks-julian-assange.html
April 26, 2019 at 01:38
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So it doesn't matter if Assange publishes information that leads to people being killed or jailed. Collateral damage, right? Yeah but who wants a polo...
April 26, 2019 at 01:37
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I think the facts on the record about what Assange has done show abundant evidence for, at the very least, reckless disregard for many individual live...
April 26, 2019 at 01:04
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You do often seem to have great difficulty understanding what I say. I must be inarticulate, or something. ;-)
April 26, 2019 at 00:37
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A lot of people here seem to reflexively assume that he's a persecuted whistleblower, but that's only part of the story. I heard an interview recently...
April 26, 2019 at 00:10
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https://www.wired.com/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/ https://www.wired.com/2016/08/what-happened-to-wikileaks/ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/aug/2...
April 25, 2019 at 23:48
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For heaven's sake, Janus, these were individuals caught up in a terrifying theatre of war, swarming with terrorists, IED's, American soldiers - your l...
April 25, 2019 at 23:37
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Oh the irony. 'Collateral damage' was precisely the name of the video which made Assange famous. That was the whole point of the outlet. No holds barr...
April 25, 2019 at 23:24
I don't think Trump had *any idea* what the Mueller report was about or what the contents were at the time he announced that it had 'totally and compl...
April 25, 2019 at 23:22
Don't forget, Republicans moved to impeach Nixon, a Republican (but he resigned before proceedings started). If there were one or more honest, er, ren...
April 25, 2019 at 23:02
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Basically, Wikileaks was simply a large google drive, into which anything could be uploaded. It was not a journal or website, as such. Basically, Assa...
April 25, 2019 at 22:46
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But independent news outlets still undertake certain conventions, such as protection of witness names, and so on. When Wikileaks did that huge dump of...
April 25, 2019 at 22:38
This is patently not true. The numerous links between the Trump campaign team and Russian operatives were noted and had already given rise to numerous...
April 25, 2019 at 22:00
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He calls himself a journalist but he has no qualifications in that discipline and has never worked for accredited media. And Wikileaks doesn’t observe...
April 25, 2019 at 21:46
It's not ironic in the least. In my uneducated and completely irreverent opinion (as I'm not well-read in Nietzsche and have a low opinion of him), Ni...
April 25, 2019 at 06:11
I wonder if you're familiar with The Sokal Affair?
April 25, 2019 at 06:08
Assuming you're asking this in good faith, I can think of several effective responses f(rom the perspective of philosophy of religion rather than Chri...
April 25, 2019 at 06:04
A succinct account of the total hypocrisy of the GOP under Trump. On the fact that Trump is suing to prevent Congress gaining access to his financial ...
April 25, 2019 at 01:14
I suppose the silver lining with Trump is how well the other institutions of Government and the Justice department are standing up against his tyranny...
April 24, 2019 at 21:51
Western cultural history was dominated by the idea of the Second Coming, the Eschaton. It is arguable that the whole notion of ‘progress’ in the West ...
April 24, 2019 at 10:29
Agree that it became consciously articulated later but I mark WWI as its advent.
April 24, 2019 at 07:50
And Nietzsche.
April 24, 2019 at 07:47
My take is simply that 'post-modernity' is a descriptive label for a period or development in history, which is (obviously) subsequent to 'modernism' ...
April 24, 2019 at 07:26
I’m very impressed with Warren’s policy and platform but dubious about her electoral appeal.
April 24, 2019 at 02:49
Just hope the democrats can find a suitable candidate and to be honest, I'm not seeing it yet (from Australia, anyway). I think Sanders is, afraid to ...
April 24, 2019 at 01:28
Until Halloween.
April 24, 2019 at 01:08
well, it is America and Great Britain, after all. Those historical factors are supposed to outweigh the personalities involved (although in Trump's ca...
April 24, 2019 at 00:17
I think the Western intellectual tradition tries to address this question by 'using reason to point to something superior to reason'. To try and compr...
April 23, 2019 at 22:29
You’re watching the destruction of the office of the President of the United States, live and in real time. This is happening.
April 23, 2019 at 10:18
It’s a lot more than an embarrassment.
April 23, 2019 at 07:01
Krugman
April 23, 2019 at 05:52
I say the whole idea is motivated by the 'fear of being' - something close to what Eric Fromm meant in his 1960s book Escape from Freedom (a.k.a. Fear...
April 22, 2019 at 02:03
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Sydney Morning Herald. I think it's indisutable that Assange became motivated by a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and that Wikileaks to all intents an...
April 21, 2019 at 08:51
April 19, 2019 at 04:45
Never mistake me for being supportive of Trump, but I think my reading is consistent with the conclusions of the Report. I don’t think Trump picked up...
April 19, 2019 at 00:32
I read a story at the beginning of last year about the substance of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian agencies and agents. Basically the ...
April 19, 2019 at 00:03
Right. Vanity Fair basically says that Mueller decided that Donny was too stupid to be culpable. https://apple.news/AEE6iOkMfRWC27bcPjlRvnQ Donny pred...
April 18, 2019 at 22:56
‘The 9 June 2016 meeting, according to the report, raised “difficult statutory and constitutional questions” relating to “schemes involving the solici...
April 18, 2019 at 22:25
‘ultimately, Mueller concluded that, despite "numerous" communications and links between the Trump campaign and Russia, there was no evidence likely t...
April 18, 2019 at 22:01
Overall, Mueller was cognisant of the legal obstacles to prosecuting a sitting President: According to Mark Joseph Stern, writing in Slate, this sente...
April 18, 2019 at 21:43
Well, the coverage is damning against Trump. No, Mueller didn’t find enough evidence for inditement against Trump, but the pattern of co-operation bet...
April 18, 2019 at 20:58
Fair enough. I know they give philosophical debate very short shrift over there.
April 18, 2019 at 20:38