Finally, I highly recommend the series of podcasts on the Ashbrook Center website.
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Monthly Archives: March 2006
NPR Podcasts
Fri Mar 31, 2006 – 5:30 pm
While I’m on the subject of podcasts, Tom Ashbrook out of Boston NPR is an excellent interviewer who attracts top notch guests. Recent podcasts include interviews with Harvey Mansfield on manliness, Francis Fukuyama and his departure from the neocons, the Spinoza-Leibniz debate over God and nature, and NY Times Baghdad correspondent John Burns. […]
Princeton Podcasts
Fri Mar 31, 2006 – 5:26 pm
Princeton University’s University Channel carries a lot of extremely interesting podcasts that you can download through the usual channels. It carries podcasts from lectures from the Wilson School, the James Madison Program, and other Princeton venues. I’d especially recommend downloading talks by Robert Kaplan (author of Imperial Grunts), Jody Bottum’s talk on politics […]
Peter Berkowitz Blog
Fri Mar 31, 2006 – 5:20 pm
Peter Berkowitz teaches law and political theory at George Mason University and is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He’s authored books on Nietzsche and on liberal virtues and writes interesting articles in newspapers and journals. Interesting stuff.
Reviews of Brokeback Mountain
Fri Mar 31, 2006 – 1:00 am
Brokeback Mountain is coming out on DVD, and sales will likely be ramped up by glowing reviews of the movie from critics. Some modest excerpts:
“Revolutionary!” — Owen Leiberman
“Unmissable and unforgettable…a landmark” — Peter Travers
“Masterful” — Ray Bennett
“I wept with joy” — Bill Garrett
“Powerful” — Kevin Turan
“The ninth wonder of the world.” — Yo Yo […]
Predicting the Headlines
Thu Mar 30, 2006 – 11:52 pm
No need to read the newspapers. ThePolitic.com already has the important media stories summed up for you:
Stephen Harper’s belly was visible today while accompanying the traitor David Emerson, who is facing continued pressure to resign, to a secret cabinet meeting that wasn’t announced to the media beforehand. Lunch will also be served at the […]
The BC Prosperity Cheque
Thu Mar 30, 2006 – 8:08 pm
I’m slowly coming around to this view:
[This] prompted me to ask Premier Gordon Campbell, when I saw him recently, when I’d be receiving my B.C. “prosperity cheque?”
He told me that I’d already received it: I get to live in B.C.
Device to Help the Annoying
Thu Mar 30, 2006 – 12:18 pm
Designed for autistic people to tell them when they’re annoying or boring others, but certainly useful for lots of other people.
Amartya Sen: Identity Not Fated
Thu Mar 30, 2006 – 11:50 am
Nobel Prize economist Amartya Sen has the beginnings of a good critique of identity politics in general and Huntington’s clash of civilizations thesis in particular.
However, he only goes halfway on the 1st, which dilutes his criticism of the 2nd.
He repeats the common criticism of identity politics that none of us can be reduced to a […]
