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Christelijk-Sociaal. Alleen het woord zelf klinkt al links. De voorstanders ervan proberen naar harte lust het idee op te dringen dat men alleen maar “sociaal” kan zijn door een soort christelijk socialisme uit te dragen. Wat hier gebeurt is eenvoudig. Men haalt hier bewust etymologie en epistemologie door elkaar (of in wat algemener Nederlands: men [...]
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Chapter 4: We are all pigs now From matryoshkas to inflatable Mickeys The globe is spinning. Its leading team of bumbling spinmeisters, statist incompetents, unalloyed greedsters, malicious socialists and phony conservatives is running this tired Western jalopy toward The Rock of Immo
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Nieuwe column op de website van Binnenlands Bestuur:
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Wat een prominant Australische wetenschapjournalist denkt aan Nederlandse promotie van Klimaatsverandering in recent 'Beat the Heat' PR Gebeurtenis.
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Kleiner Nachklapp zum Frauentag, dem gerade hierzulande schwer zu entkommen ist, weil er in der DDR-Tradition fest verwurzelt war. Wie jedes Jahr hingen schon seit Wochen in den Kaufhallen und an den örtlichen Schwarzen Brettern Plakate mit Einladungen zum Männerstriptease („Frau gönnt sich ja sonst nichts“), die großen Töchter berichteten wieder von Blumengaben an Lehrerinnen, von [...]
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According to John Harwood in The New York Times, public support for "reining in Wall Street" has Democrats about as exuberant as Democrats ever get any more. Scared Senate Republicans are looking for deals to cut. The public wants this thing, with three-fifths supporting it in a recent poll. Democrats—who always do the public's bidding—are ready to close the deal.
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New York seems to be full of people who go to shop openings and social events just to be seen. I don’t much care for these parties because I would rather see my friends privately, and have an actual conversation, than feign interest in something I don’t care about like a handbag with Tinsley Mortimer’s name on it.
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by James Matthew Wilson When we think ethically, we are asking ourselves questions about what a good life looks like—what is its form. So, too, on a wider scale with politics: political speculation tries to imagine the desirable form of communal
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You can't explain natural selection by appeals to domestication. There is no mind in Darwin's nature to conduct a breeding program. Oh, yeah?... more
It's possible to make the case that the most important thing about Bob Dylan is his Jewishness.
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