The Illusion of Knowledge

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The Illusion of Knowledge

Monthly Archives: November 2013

The Tea Party & The Constitution

25 Monday Nov 2013

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By Charles Kesler.  Sounds right to me.

Even a smart liberal like Sam Tanenhaus considers the Tea Party to be the last gasp of a dying conservatism that has ceased to be Burkean and become, in his word, “Jacobin,” that is, revolutionary in the bad, French sense. Of course, the Tea Party’s very name refers to a revolution—but to the American Revolution, not the irrational French one. Tanenhaus doesn’t see much of a difference because he seems to dismiss as extremist any form of politics that doesn’t go with the evolutionary flow, and that appeals to universal and timeless principles of justice. One is tempted to say that he rejects natural rights as firmly as John C. Calhoun did and for a similar reason: they endanger the ancien regime, which in our time is liberalism.

Reason # 5 Why I am a Classical Liberal

25 Monday Nov 2013

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Because bureaucratic attachment to ideology produces serious harm by an organization that can ignore both common sense and oversight:

Rationing Bone Marrow

HHS Proposes Rule to Amend NOTA, Nullify Flynn v. Holder

 

Painting With A Brush of Tar

11 Monday Nov 2013

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Emily Bazelon at Slate has a fascinating account of the Nazis’ use of bodies for their scientific research and its legacy.  Here is the title: The Nazi Anatomists: How the corpses of Hitler’s victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics.  Here is the http address:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/11/nazi_anatomy_history_the_origins_of_conservatives_anti_abortion_claims_that.html

Talk about journalistic malfeasance.  In an 8,000 word article (most of it very interesting) Bazelon links Todd Akin’s ridiculous comment to Nazi atrocities, implying that the origin of his comment stems from bad Nazi science.  Perhaps it does (though Bazelon provides no direct evidence, only speculation).  Regardless, from the title of the article and the http link one is left with the impression that conservatives’ ideological opposition to abortion is largely influenced by inaccurate scientific conclusions drawn in the 1930s by Nazi researchers.  It is an absurd claim that has no basis in fact and it is appalling editorial work by Slate.  The editors should be ashamed of themselves and, if Ms. Bazelon had a hand in choosing the title of the piece, she should be ashamed, too.

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