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I remember Allan Bloom, Part 2
The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein Einstein’s aphorism above in an utterly singular manner extrapolates why professor Allan Bloom had to write his magnum opus, “The Closing of the American Mind,” [...]
Will Iran be the next domino to fall?
Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, and now widespread protests are breaking out all over Iran where the people are in a state of siege over the 32 year theocratic dictatorship under the Mullahs. The Iranian people have renewed their rage against the current despotic leadership, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud [...]
I remember Allan Bloom
For Bloom, the moral vacuum created by liberalism inside the souls of Americans was filled by demagogic radicals in the ’60s similar to the Nazi Brownshirts who in the ’20s and ’30s filled the breach created in German society by the Weimar Republic. Bloom further argued that liberal values of philosophy and reason understood as [...]
Nixon and today’s progressive GOP
Despite the past two and a half years America has been run by a president who is in every respect a socialist with communist tendencies, the pathetic GOP cannot effectively mount a first-tier candidate to seriously challenge this diminutive Marxist professor. Why? Because for 40 years the GOP has used the rhetoric of conservative Ronald [...]
Symposium: The SCOTUS suicide pact
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) – a renowned Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato. Plato taught Aristotle and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking leading questions. The Greeks called this form dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points [...]
Professor Bruce Herschensohn on “An American Amnesia”
Does being on the left mean never having to say that you are sorry?—If you are talking about the Vietnam War and who won it 35 years later, that very well may be the case. Regarding the real truth of the Vietnam War after the fall of Saigon, Laos and Cambodia, Senator Fulbright, D-AK, who [...]
Gov’t imposing new emissions rules on plants, refineries
Fox News Senior Political and Legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano guest hosting on the Glenn Beck Show last Monday had liberal radio host Nancy Skinner debate with Chris Horner, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of “Power Grab: How Obama’s Greenhouse Policies Will Steal your Freedom and Bankrupt America.” http://www.globalwarming.org/2010/04/19/new-book-by-cei-senior-fellow-christopher-horner-power-grab-how-obama%E2%80%99s-green-policies-will-steal-your-freedom-and-bankrupt-america/ The [...]
Symposium: Plato’s Cave, 2011
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) – a renowned Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato – Plato taught Aristotle and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking leading questions. The Greeks called this form dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between [...]
An American Weimar Republic
What are the logical comparisons and consequences we can understand between the economic, moral and intellectual devolution of Germany under the Weimar Republic that ushered in the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler and a post-Ronald Reagan America (since 1990), that continued the Democratic socialism of Wilson, FDR and LBJ, which eventually ushered in the Age [...]