A friend’s facebook profile lead me to a new favorite site: Political Theory Daily Review. While perusing the site I found this interesting book review on Inventing Human Rights: A History. I especially liked the concluding sentences: If human rights have remained, for 200 years, merely rhetorical and emotional constructs, with no power to compel [...]

Tags: Nota Bene, Rights

By the way, I forgot to mention that 300 is an absolutely fantastic film. Plot, writing, cinematography, special effects – you name it, it was great. But there are also the political overtones. “What?” you say. An anonymous Hollywood writer has a piece up on National Review that fills you in. LIBERTAS used this same [...]

Tags: Movies

The Corner mentioned a cool site today: DontVote.org. The premise is pretty simple: you shouldn’t vote if you don’t actually know anything about politics. Their way of measuring that is by showing you a picture of someone and asking you who they are and what their title is, in multiple choice format. After answering the [...]

Tags: Elections, The Internet

That was the title of a recent article in The Maroon. The intro is hilarious. This is so true (bold is mine): It’s sort of like coming out of the closet time and time again—to homophobes. If you’re a political conservative, you know this experience. It’s usually someone with whom you’re casually friendly; it somehow [...]

Tags: Politics

I highly recommend Michael Pakaluk’s book, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: an introduction; everything I’ve read in there has been very helpful. In particular, I thoroughly enjoyed his chapter on Book X of the Ethics. Actually, it was somewhat odd. I continually found myself reading explanations of issues from Book X which I had previously thought about. [...]

Tags: Aristotle