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Spatula: June 2012
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Saturday, June 9, 2012. New York: Robert Appleton Company,. As many now know, authoritarian governments from the past are not the only ones who seek to increase control over their populace. In 2011, despite earlier promises to the contrary ( http:/ www.usccb.org/news/archived.cfm? Thus began a struggle between the State and the Church that Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, IL, characterized as another Kulturkampf ( http:/ www.thecatholicpost.com/post/PostArticle.aspx? 8211; this is his entire homily, not th...
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Honor Today: July 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 2013. De Tocqueville's Democracy in America. I said I was going to read Tocqueville's Democracy in America. And I have been, but due to my particular aversion to the details of American government, I started with Volume 2, and now I'm half way through Volume I. I'm also reading a recent biography of Tocqueville at the same time, Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty. By Lucien Jaume. Plus, I'm reading a book for review for The European Legacy. But that's another story.
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Honor Today: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Honor in Education: Air Force Academy. While I sympathize with instructors at the Academy, who have endured some embarrassing discoveries of widespread academic dishonesty (in 2007, fifteen cadets were expelled for cheating and three others resigned, and in 2004, something similar had occurred- USA Today. The honor code at the Academy reads, "We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How we got here.
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Spatula: December 2011
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Monday, December 12, 2011. Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich. Mel Brooks famously said, "But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths." I humbly offer the notion of Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain discussing something more mundane than the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bruce Bawer Memo From Europe. A Spatula in the Kitchen. Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich.
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Honor Today: December 2013
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Sunday, December 1, 2013. Honor Codes at the Air Force Academy. Here is the story about the Air Force Academy honor code and the use of informants , published today by the Colorado Gazette. Be sure to watch the video that comes with the story. Honor and deception A secretive Air Force program lures academy students to inform on fellow cadets and disavows them afterward. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart. Human Progress: (3) Life is Richer and Less Impoverished.
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Honor Today: Solid but Low: The Challenge for Honor
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Thursday, March 13, 2014. Solid but Low: The Challenge for Honor. This is a quote from Martin Diamond's essay, "Ethics and Politics: The American Way," which sums up the challenge for honor in modern liberal democracy. The new policy is Madison's solution to the problem of faction- the large commercial republic which thrives and relies upon self-interest. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart. Human Progress: (3) Life is Richer and Less Impoverished. How we got here.
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Honor Today: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. No Downton Abbey in America. So there is a loss of a kind of servant-honor, and there is a loss of a certain kind of kinship, too. Because the same families, servants and masters, are settled on the same estates for generations, they are intertwined as a kind of family. "Long-shared memories unite them, and however different they be, yet they grow alike.". Reminiscent of Marx's lament in the Communist Manifesto. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How we got here.
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Honor Today: Audio/Video
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From the 36th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Morris, April 6, 2012:. Honor in Today's America, Part 1. Honor and Ethics Mini-Conference. Honor in Today's America, Part 2. Honor and Ethics Mini-Conference. Honor in Today's America, Part 3. Honor and Ethics Mini-Conference. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart. Human Progress: (3) Life is Richer and Less Impoverished. 8220;Ethics for Adversaries” blog. How we got here.
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Spatula: Gun Deaths vs Drunk Deaths
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Saturday, July 21, 2012. Gun Deaths vs Drunk Deaths. According to the Guardian. In 2010 there were 8775 murders caused by guns in the U.S ( http:/ www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state. For the same year, MADD reports that there were 10,228 deaths caused by drunk drivers in the US ( http:/ www.madd.org/statistics/. An interesting couple of statistics. Thank you. July 22, 2012 at 4:48 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bruce Bawer Memo From Europe. A Spatula in the Kitchen.
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Spatula: SEC Football in Big Trouble
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Monday, July 23, 2012. SEC Football in Big Trouble. Today, Mark Emmert, NCAA president, issued a series of wholly justifiable and appropriate sanctions against Penn State (my alma mater) football in the wake of the damning Freeh report on the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal involving little boys. If you think this is ridiculous, but that Penn State deserved the sanctions and penalties it received for letting its football program get out of hand, then you’re a hypocrite. July 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM. Yet more, rat...
