Jason Blakely
jasonwblakely
Vermeule in 2008 wrote that conspiracy theorists cultivate "paranoid cognition" among their followers to isolate them & make outsiders appear "sinister" (full text below)After @ChronicleReview *invited* me to pen a
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What I wish for Trumpist Catholic intellectuals in America today?More moral simplicity. Less theory. 2/Understand I write this as a theorist: they are over-theorized & captives to abstraction.They lack the
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Years of teaching a course on the roots of the major modern ideologies has taught me that even most highly educated Americans have no idea how to define fascism's "leader
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.@MattBruenig: liberal pluralism is fake because we all believe our view of final questions ought to reign. This makes 2 errorsFirst, it's logically possible to hold the truth of an
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Proposition: “Western Civilization” does not signify a coherent political, ethical, or philosophical program.Aquinas, Marx, Homer, Jesus, Nietzsche, Benedict, Hobbes & Plato etc. mark rival traditions & ways of life.The main
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