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Such a politics is what the English political theorist Bernard Crick calls the conciliation of rival interests in a polity using compromise rather than force. Crick’s conception of politics shifts the focus away from abstractions and ideologies towards the praxis of ‘preserving a community’ that has ‘grown too complicated for either tradition alone
... See moreAdrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
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
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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after a decade the Positive Tickets system had reduced recidivism from 60 per cent to 8 per cent.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
This is Joe Overton
The famous "Overton Window" is named after him
It's the best mental model for understanding how political change ACTUALLY happens
A thread... https://t.co/1urS5qj3uV
RL McCormick
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