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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Eichmann Endures</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1961]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Eichmann]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Burger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebellion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Clara University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, has succeeded in partially replicating Stanley Milgram&#8217;s famous social obedience experiment, whereby test subjects torture strangers with electrical shocks when told to do so. Depressingly, mankind appears to remain as obedient to evil as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Appointment with Defeat</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/an-appointment-with-defeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blagojevich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gubernatorial appointment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nate Silver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blagojevich&#8217;s senate appointment might not be as valuable to a political career as he seemed to believe. Nate Silver takes a systematic look at senators who were appointed to fill vacant seats by governors over the last fifty years, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/an-appointment-with-defeat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Party Personality Disorder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob barr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catch-22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Debs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John B. Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Heller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Libertarian Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[michael badnarik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voter behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself complaining to a Libertarian colleague of mine today (note the capital &#8216;L&#8217;), about the deplorable political consensus that has emerged on the bailout strategy for economic resuscitation. The bipartisan policy is a ghastly trifecta of the ineffective, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Athens into Persepolis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enemy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush&#8217;s characterization of capitalism as the &#8220;highway to the American Dream.&#8221; Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1965]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antidemocratic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian communism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The 2048 Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1952]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1992]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2048]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been president-elect for exactly one day and James Carville is already arguing for an inevitable Democratic majority for the next 40 years. Imagine predicting Jim&#8217;s claim to fame, the 1992 election, from the vantage of 1952, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Miliband]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband&#8217;s knowledge of history. There&#8217;s something incredibly deranged about that government. They&#8217;ve taken the traditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Republican Atavism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Podhoretz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don&#8217;t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnostatism Fails</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement of &#8220;ethnic studies&#8221; curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called &#8220;multiculturalist,&#8221; but since they tend to be monoethnic &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life Under Stalinism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Bogosian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zareh Tjeknavorian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the Second World War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/defending-the-second-world-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revisionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it&#8217;s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I&#8217;ll warn &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/defending-the-second-world-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire &amp; Invasion, by Paddy Docherty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book was written entirely in the passive voice. The passive voice was used to avoid assigning causation or personhood to various events. As a result, we learn that places were invaded, people were slaughtered, armies were founded, but no &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Lakoff: Neo-Syndicalist</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I read with fascination William Saletan&#8217;s review of the new offering from George Lakoff, &#8220;The Political Mind,&#8221; and was struck by the remarkable similarities between it and the revolutionary syndicalism espoused during the prior fin de siècle. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I&#8217;ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Understand Them, You Must Know Them</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/19/to-understand-them-you-must-know-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Ron Paul&#8217;s more disturbing and radical views are emerging, especially how closely he has associated himself with the Mises Institute, it might behoove those of us who consider ourselves on the libertarian side of things to more closely examine &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/19/to-understand-them-you-must-know-them/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps we&#8217;re turning into Victorians</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: What I Learned About the World from Reading Historical Romances. I learned that sometimes people get *more* uptight over time rather than less. Victorians, according to custom and any number of novels, were concerned with propriety above all. Certain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just Imagine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Cross posted at Whatif?) George Santayana told us:  &#8220;Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221; What on earth do you do, though, with those who never learned any history in the first place? A fifth of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/just-imagine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: &#8220;Globalization implies subjugation of the world &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Terrible Human Toll</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-terrible-human-toll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of excruciating misery during wartime, few events can compare with what befell Napoleon&#8217;s troops during his campaign in Russia. From Strange Maps we see the suffering and tragedy in graphic statistical form. (click image to enlarge) “The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-terrible-human-toll/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wither MLK?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Louis Taylor on the evaporation of common knowledge about Martin Luther King, Jr: &#8220;No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don&#8217;t know what that dream was.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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