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Import and citation

Friday, October 30, 2009

First I should “espouse herein” my hope that Reed And Ink becomes more than a mere blog and is a publishing platform for others’ writing, and my own. That said, more seriously now we turn to: The way was prepared for the criteria of comfort and mediocrity when the Middle Ages abandoned the ethic of [...]

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Ideas have consequences

Sunday, October 25, 2009

I’m in my third pass through the first half of Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences. The book is reactionary without being offensive (if one pairs the two), provocative without being insulting. There’s nothing like a challenging text, and by that I mean one that isn’t dense or technical, but one whose very ideas, indeed, have [...]

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