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Dr Hatem Bazian • Zohran Mamdani and Atmospheric Islamophobia:
And while traditionalists, taking their cues from Aristotle, Aquinas, and Burke, believed that man was naturally sociable and tended toward consensus, so long as there was the faithful transmission of an ethical tradition, Burnham saw only conflict. This bedrock belief in the “irrational” and violent core of man and the primacy of conflict over
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powerfordemocracies.orgThe main problem was that accounts of Iraqi defectors were regurgitated by government officials, the neutrality of which the New York Times simply assumed. Consequently, they reprinted officials’ claims about weapons of mass destruction without sufficient question.
Nesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom
Whereas Buchanan’s views were informed by a sense of earnestness, humility, and respect, Rothbard’s every breath was laden with irreverence for authority. Buchanan was an Irish Catholic who regarded 1959’s liberalizing Vatican II Council as a surrender of the forces of good (meaning orthodoxy) to those of decadent modernism. Rothbard, on the other
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