Friday, April 20, 2007

Jesus of Nazareth

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Benedict XVI's book on Jesus Christ just came out in Italian. It is coming out in one month in English. It behooves us to read it and ...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

On Vacation

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Joe will be in Rome until April 10th.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Trotsky Versus Stalin in America

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Below is a letter to the editor to the Washington Post and a few links to some articles on neo-conservatism. Based on these letters and link...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Democrats and War

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I have been saying for some time now that the Democrats, while they might be critical of the way Bush has carried out the war in Iraq, are n...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Perpetual War and American Foreign Policy

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Apparently, President Bush had a luncheon on February 28th. A number of historians and political thinkers attended this luncheon who have h...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A Revoir to the Lords

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Yesterday, in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/world/europe/08britain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin England is cons...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Physics and History

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From Sunday's New York Times Magazine (3/11/07): an article on developments in astronomy. It looks like our physicists are saying that...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

A Thought on Politics

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A student asked the question today, what is the best political system or the best party right now? Here is my answer: In some ways, the Gre...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Conservatism and Sexual Revolution

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Previous comments from previous posts, which are very insightful, have led me to take a second look at an aspect of Adams's biography, h...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Progressivism and the French Revolution

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I have before me a book titled "The Progressive Revolution." I have not read it yet, but just the back cover tells us that the di...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Rival Political Scientists: Adams and Condorcet

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In 1787 and 1788, Condorcet and Adams would prove themselves to be rivals in attempting to influence the overall orientation of the coming r...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Soul of Adams

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A number of references in Peter Shaw, The Character of John Adams, give us insight into the soul of Adams. Many of these insights are taken...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Two Letters

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Consider these two letters: Adams to Jefferson, January 31, 1796 (259) “I consider all Reasoning upon French Affairs of little moment. The ...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Stoking Revolution, in France, in Iran

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I know that this is almost a re-statement of a previous entry, but I have re-worked the paragraphs. The story that is told here might be ve...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

John Adams, Conservative Revolutionary

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In 1773, responding to the machinations of the local govenor, Adams argued for rebellion. Rebellion in the sense that Adams conceived of it...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Bicameralism and Unicameralism Debated for the Coming Revolution

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Adams disagreed with the proponents of a unicameral legislature, especially Turgot and Condorcet. Eventually, Kant will defend the ideas of...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Debating Revolution

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As I am delving deeper into the Adams-Jefferson controversy that surrounded the French Revolution, it seems to me that the dispute came down...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Adams Skeptical about the French Revolution

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By late 1788 and early 1789 Jefferson sees even more advances being made in the political life in France. He sees an orderly revolution in ...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Jefferson, Adams, and War

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In 1787, Jefferson argued very clearly that the United States should stay out of European affairs. He saw a war coming in europe between En...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Principle, History, and Tradition

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What distinguishes Burke & Adams on the one hand, from Pius VI, on the other, is the commitment to a robust principles of the moral orde...