Friday, April 08, 2005
Guest blogger: David Brooks
Many thanks to Michael for letting me join you all today. I thought it would be fun to do a . . .
Friday random ten: conservatives’ favorite philosophers
Which philosophers are on the average conservative pundit’s iPod? Here are mine:
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France – Live at Leeds
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book 3 Prosa 1 (“Iam cantum illa finiuerat, cum me audiendi auidum stupentemque arrectis adhuc auribus carminis mulcedo defixerat. . . .”)
Michael Oakeshott, “Rationalism in Politics”
Donald Luskin, I Have Paul Krugman’s Home Address
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (Double Live Gonzo)
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment § 9, purposive purposelessness remix
Anaximander, fragment DK 12B1
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Chicago edition, Supplement, Questions 67 and 68 (“Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?” and “Of Illegitimate Children”)
Friedrich August von Hayek, Totally Tubular Cash Flow (volume two of The Road to Surfdom, illustrated version, with an introduction by Jonah Goldberg)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, final sentence
American Airspace
As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where-- where do they go?
Straight here. To this blog.
You are now in American Airspace.
Ginormous looming Putin head h/t.
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