John Stuart Mill

                   

Public Intellectual 2.0

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News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:05 PM EST Good news! There's access to this Chronicle of Higher Ed article! So go read it, all ye public intellectuals! Right now! By DANIEL W. DREZNER Disquisitions about...

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One form of immortality is hers

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15-Nov-2008
        

'We hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living' CHARLOTTE GRAY From Saturday's Globe and Mail Watch out, here comes Mary Wollstonecraft — brilliant, bright-eyed and passionate. Much of what Wollstonecraft...

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The dumbing down of the GOP

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15-Nov-2008 128 related
        

John Stuart Mill once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who are busy reinventing conservatism for a new era. As The Economist's...

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Liberals face the truth about Obama.

theyoungturks.com
15-Nov-2008
        

is Asst Managing Editor at Newsweek, and grandson of Norman Thomas, the former head of the Socialist Party. Note that they intentionally withheld the truth about Obama until after the election. Ken is going to spend the next 8...

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Trying to educate, but wilting away

thenews.com.pk
14-Nov-2008
        

Friday, November 14, 2008 By Perwez Abdullah Karachi For a long time it has been believed that social sciences are the victims of neglect in Pakistan, and the University of Karachi (KU) is no different. It was only when the...

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Digby Anderson: Social censorship works

guardian.co.uk
13-Nov-2008
        

Ostracising those who stray from established codes of speech and behaviour benefits society as a whole The most cited defender of free speech is Victorian political philosopher John Stuart Mill, especially his book On Liberty....

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Lexington: Ship of fools

economist.com
13-Nov-2008
        

Political parties die from the head downJOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who have been busy reinventing...

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Historic Parallels for Islamic Reform

xrdarabia.org
13-Nov-2008
        

There’s an interesting piece over that the Arabic-language Misbah Al-Hurriyah (Lamp of Freedom) website that suggests parallels between what happened in England during the 18th-19th C and what is going on in today’s Islamic...

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Universal truth in an age of reason

mercatornet.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Does it really all depend? Today, it would seem,absolute truth doesn’t exist and as a result William Gairdner’s latest book, The Book of Absolutes will appear as a bolt out of the blue. Start here: Logic,states Gairdner, shows...

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Letters: The Mail v Mr Justice Eady

guardian.co.uk
12-Nov-2008 90 related
        

Paul Dacre's rant (The threat to our press, Media, November 10) might ring truer if the tabloids he represents really were plucky Davids battling corrupt Goliaths. Like other English judges, he does not create new law, but...

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