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Archive for July 18th, 2006

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Words Appearing on This Site for the First Time Ever

Ryan Sager’s piece is excellent. Allowing for different political tendencies, his article on the “libertarian” threat to the Republican Party in the intermountain West is closely argued and strikes just the right notes, as when he responds to a conservative critic with
Libertarians want to destroy the Republican Party.
How to put this … It’s not our [...]

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Carl Schmitt Explains It All to You

Holbo quotes the dead fascist philosopher pal of Leo Strauss on “political romanticism”:
In the romantic it is not reality that matters, but rather romantic productivity, which transforms everthing and makes it into the occasion for poetry. What the king and queen are in reality is intentionally ignored. Their function consists instead in being a point [...]