Month: May 2009

Is Something Really Wrong with Kansas?

ABSTRACT: The widely believed claim that many voters in American elections are voting against their economic interests (“lower income Republicans versus affluent Democrats”) in favor of their social or cultural values is not supportable by the data concerning class voting patterns. American voters are polarized on both a […]

Updated News Digest May 31, 2009

Quote of the Week: “An intellectual is someone who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” “That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.” “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of […]

The Political Theory of Carl Schmitt

By Keith Preston   Discussion:   Carl Schmitt The Crisis of Parliamentary Liberalism  The Concept of the Political The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (p. 331, 334-337, 342-345)             The editors of The Weimar Republic Sourcebook attempt to summarize the political thought of Carl Schmitt and interpret his writings […]

Ernst Junger: The Resolute Life of an Anarch

by Keith Preston Perhaps the most interesting, poignant and, possibly, threatening  type of writer and thinker is the one who not only defies conventional categorizations of thought but also offers a deeply penetrating critique of those illusions many hold to be the most sacred. Ernst Junger (1895-1998), who […]

Updated News Digest May 24, 2009

Quote of the Week: “The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything: It confirms not only the rule but also its existence, which derives only from the exception. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust […]

Updated News Digest May 10, 2009

Quote of the Week: “There’s the populist wing of the libertarian movement, and then there’s the Washington crowd that’s still trying to sell libertarianism, or their version of it, to elites. These people want to go along and get along. As long as they can abort their babies […]