Thornton Hall
The Revolution Will Be Kuhnian.
The Revolution Will Be Kuhnian.
Pulling the exact same quote as I did here, the head of the Duke Philosiphy department has a critique of Paul Krugman's economic methodology that sounds familiar to my ears.
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For a variety of reasons, Reaganists argue that we should solve today's problems by scaling up private charity with tax dollars.
This, as it turns out, is what Herbert Hoover tried. You may have heard that it didn't work...
All of these sources identify the patterns in data created by voter surveys that force respondents to label themselves either "liberal" or "conservative". The patterns are real but totally meaningless because (unbeknownst to the writers and pundits?) these labels have no consistent meaning whatsoever.
Because they are fanatically dedicated to the idea that democracy requires subjugating women in the name of liberty, five "conservative" justices wrote a law yesterday creating a public option for health care.
If you think there is a "genuine debate about the proper scope of the federal government" and if you think "conservatives" believe in small government, then the emergency injunction issued by the court on behalf of Billy Graham College is logically impossible. It simply can't be true that the most principled of principled small government advocates just said that they have the power--contrary to the clear language of Congress--to order the federal government to provide or "facilitate" the provision of contraception to college employees.
