Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Against Reverse Racism

    Guest Post by Michael Phillip

    I don’t think “reverse racism” is a useful or even entirely coherent concept, and I don’t think thought-experiments are a particularly helpful way to think about racism in the first place: in my view, something about the subject demands an “ecological” or “in vivo” rather than thought-experimental approach.

    In other words, the topic demands engagement with the living, breathing complexity of real-live experiences of racism, not with thought-experiments that abstract away from them.

    I also think that if the topic is racism, as it should be, focusing on black-white relations in the U.S. is overly narrow, and problematically distortive of our thinking.

    It doesn’t even capture race relations in the U.S., much less race relations beyond American borders.

  • Don. Where is your head at on the Drudge Thing? Still on deck or no? Don Finnega

    Don. Where is your head at on the Drudge Thing? Still on deck or no?

    Don Finnegan

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 09:18:00 UTC

  • HOW TO PRESENT MISES AND RAND IN THE 20th CENTURY? I would present it (as I do)

    HOW TO PRESENT MISES AND RAND IN THE 20th CENTURY?

    I would present it (as I do) as a last ditch desperate attempt to reach the enlightenment utopia embodied in both cosmopolitan middle class universalism, and anglo puritanical middle class universalism.

    But that both movements were failures and had to be, because universalism and equality are merely utilitarian merchant philosophies of self interest made possible by temporary economic advantage.

    And that the dream of a market of everyone or the dream of an aristocracy of everybody, are ideological fancies that are politically untenable, largely undesirable, and competitively unsuccessful.

    As such the virtue of the program is limited to the insights into cooperation made possible by information. And that our institutional problem across the past four millennia remains the constant need to improve means of information use and distribution as the scale and diversity of the division of labor expands analogistically to fractal evolution into all parts of human existence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 08:22:00 UTC

  • RON PAUL AS KREMLIN STOOGE —“Lack of transparency in funding and the blurring

    RON PAUL AS KREMLIN STOOGE

    —“Lack of transparency in funding and the blurring of distinctions between think tanks and lobbying helps the Kremlin push its agendas forward without due scrutiny.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 05:15:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 05:01:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.interpretermag.com/the-menace-of-unreality-how-the-kremlin-weaponizes-information-culture-and-money/POSTMODERNISM

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 19:04:00 UTC

  • “Today’s Kremlin is engaged in a nihilistic bid to sow confusion among the “enem

    —-“Today’s Kremlin is engaged in a nihilistic bid to sow confusion among the “enemies of Russia,” based on the almost postmodern conviction that objective truth is irrelevant and the importance of facts has evaporated in favor of narratives. “—-

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 19:03:00 UTC

  • Eli Says It Better

    Eli Says It Better.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 13:04:00 UTC

  • we need to take theses people out and expose them as Russian funded propagandist

    http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2014/12/07/house-chooses-new-cold-war-with-russia/Roman we need to take theses people out and expose them as Russian funded propagandists.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-08 13:15:00 UTC

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    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2014/12/weve-habituated-to-rigged-fraudulent.htmlObvious.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-08 13:12:00 UTC