Showing posts with label Lionel Trilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lionel Trilling. Show all posts
Monday, June 27, 2022

Someone who takes her libertarianism far too seriously is haunted by a hobgoblin, amusingly faults so-called folk libertarians for inconsistency and channels her inner liberal Lionel Trilling to jeer at their "irritated" jerking

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 Real libertarianism like hers is a creature of liberalism and the left, not of the right, and so is primarily critical in nature, distingui...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Financial Times says Trudeau has gone too far invoking the Emergencies Act against the peaceful protest of the Canada Freedom Convoy, calls restrictions on truckers' cross border travel "government over-reach"

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  Here : Canadian leader Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act this week in response to the occupation was a step too far, howe...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

President Trump could easily veto these spending bills and get spending compromises from Congress, but won't because he's a wimp

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The narrow majorities of Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate mean there would be great difficulty achieving 2/3 majorities...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Conservatism is reduced to a few irritable mental gestures in Trump's America

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Monday, July 15, 2019

Liberals used to call conservatism a collection of "irritable mental gestures", now progressives elevate racism to "authentically reactionary impulses"

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Wow, racism is now an authentic impulse. You heard it here first, courtesy of progressivism.  
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Republican enthusiasm for the Line Item Veto began under Reagan and was their version of the imperial presidency

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No different than Reagan's enthusiasm for federal mandates like EMTALA, which is the proximate cause of ObamaCare. But J. T. Young doe...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

New York's Puritan Mayor Bans 2-Liter Pop With Pizza Deliveries

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Story here . It used to be conservatism and reaction which in 1950 were said not  to exist as real ideas but only as mere actions or irritab...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Congratulations, Rush, For 24 Years Of Success With Irritable Mental Gestures

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Liberal Massachusetts Town Institutes Fines For Public Swearing

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The move actually de-criminalizes public swearing in order to remove it from the penumbra of First Amendment applications, as reported here ...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

It Takes An Irritable Mental Gesture To Know One

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

An Irritable Mental Gesture of Liberalism Visualized:Only Resembling The Idea of Showing Respect

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"In the United States at this time Liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fa...