My response to Applebaum's misguided reasoning in the article posted: First, it's ridiculous to think any mass media politic rhetoric will be anything but...
I am interested in what people on this forum think of Senator Obama's plan to create a "Civilian force for national defense as large and well funded as the...
A bill to require compulsory public service failed in the US Senate by one vote. I believe the year was 1944 or 1945. Let us wait until Wednesday, November...
WIW - I think what this actually means is that an Obama Administration would shift priorities from disretionary spending on the military to civil agencies...
Colleagues, When a politician declares the establishment of a defense force the first question I ask is, "who's the enemy?" A civilian defense force has the...
If Mr. Riggs's post had to do with the -establishment- of a defense force, you might have a point. We already have an enormous defense force -- or rather, a...
Senator Obama made his comments some months ago. Here is what he said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2p6867_pw He has made actual proposals such expanding...
Mr. Chappell: Here's a link that includes a slightly bigger partial transcript of the speech, http://volokh.com/posts/1216451854.shtml which includes these...
I did not post a transcript; I posted a speech. The words were indeed careless & a departure from the printed speech. So what? Who doesn't make off the cuff...
I don't think it's always the product of playing gotcha -- it's partly the soundbyte character of US mass media political discourse. But, if you're concerned...
I am not at all concerned to defend Obama or attack McCain. I agree (& I have said so on this list) that both are fairly typical politicians sounding high...
Mr. Chappell; Yes, the context is important. However, I am not more at ease if the meaning of a civilian security force relates to an "orwellian" network of...
Dear colleagues, It seems to be endlessly long ago that there happened any serious discussion of Eric Voegelin's work on this forum. But I think we reached the...
The national service theme is very American. It goes back at least as far as William James's essay on the need for a "moral equivalent for war." I am only...
Mr. Riedl: I'd be interested to see your analysis of other listmembers' posts, how you distinguish between doxa and logos within them, and to see how you can...
Matthias Riedl insists on bringing Eric Voegelin into the discussion! What might Voegelin think of the current situation were he alive today? I don't know....
Umm, being both contributor to and observer of all this, I could not be entirely unaware of selective noncompliance with Fritz's entreaty. But I would like to...
I have much appreciated Dr. Rovira's political analysis of the Obama movement. But Mr. Wagner's catena of relevant quotations from Voegelin for us to ponder...
Doxa is a major symbol and theme in Plato. Its analysis and use requires great care -- greater care indeed than a few casual posts on a discussion list will...
"Partisan' is a perfectly serviceable term. I do not know if it is scientific, but it has good common sense uses. I think that there are all sorts of contexts...
Sorry for giving you a wrong impression. I was not refering specially to Mr. Chapman's post, I was asking a general question. Otherwise I would have quoted...
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Nov 3, 2008 3:09 pm
Fyi. bc From: Mohamed Ibn Guadi [mailto:mguadi@...] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:51 PM To: Mohamed Ibn Guadi Subject: Laurent Murawiec - The Mind of...
Flattering but hardly true. Those who have seen "Voegelin in Toronto" may recall Bernard Lonergan's discussion of reading and "a second apprehension," by...
Dear Mr. Rovira, dear colleagues, I apologize for the too general tone of my last remarks. I do by no means claim that I could make judgements from a...
I respectfully ask Dr. Riedl to clarify this tantalizing statement: I think that Americans have good reasons to have more trust in the stability of their...
Thank you for your response, Mr. Riedl - I regret mine made you feel an apology was necessary. What constitutes politics may be a necessary starting point...
Yes. The alternative to messianism in the US is: "Oh yeah? Talk's cheap. Put your money where your mouth is. Show me. All hat and no cattle? A day late and...
Four years ago someone here expressed dismay that the voting process in Ohio took so long and went so late into the night, purportedly working to the...
