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It has saddened to me watch @Harvard, a university that I love from which I have greatly benefited, self-immolate through gross mismanagement, poor governance, and ideological capture that have occurred over the last 15 or so years, and that have been brought into clear focus beginning on October 8, 2023. When a day... See more

Bill Ackman x.com

It was Sir Sayyid’s Kashmiri protégé, Chiragh Ali (1844–95), who most succinctly outlined his mentor’s argument for legal reform. Chiragh Ali was incensed at the way Islam had been portrayed by Europeans as “essentially rigid and inaccessible to change.” The notion that its laws and customs are based “on a set of specific precepts which can neither

Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman: "Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in an even number, you're in, and if it... See more

Pirate Wires x.com

Why Strauss thinks something “critical” is lost

1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.

2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.

3. Natural right is... See more

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In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

Leo Strauss

Barton Gellman • Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy

proposed having owners self-assess the value of their property under penalty of having to sell at this self-assessed value.[447]

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis

Robert P. George

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Cover of The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis

The Americans have retained these three distinguishing characteristics of the judicial power; an American judge can only pronounce a decision when litigation has arisen, he is only conversant with special cases, and he cannot act until the cause has been duly brought before the court.