Monthly Archives: June 2007

Out of All The Things That Are Hard Work, The Hardest Is Appreciating Another’s Work Truly

That’s all I have to say.When our age under­stands that, of course, it will be a wholly dif­fer­ent age, and nowhere near as tyran­ni­cal in the pri­vate sphere as it is now.I think I’m tak­ing a blog­ging break this week­end. Not sure yet. Please feel free to sub­scribe via fee­dreader or e-mail (h/t Problog­ger for …

June 29, 2007 – 6:29 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)

Wisdom and Rule: On Poem 343 of Emily Dickinson, “My Reward for Being”

(343) My Reward for Being… Emily Dick­in­son My Reward for Being, was This. My pre­mium — My Bliss – An Admi­ralty, less – A Scep­tre — pen­ni­less – And Realms — just Dross – When Thrones accost my Hands – With “Me, Miss, Me” – I’ll unroll Thee – Domin­ions dow­er­less — beside this Grace – …

June 29, 2007 – 3:23 pm | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, philosophy, poetry, xenophon | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Forms and Formalities Regarding the American Constitution

Mans­field aims to defend the Con­sti­tu­tion against the slights and scorns of polit­i­cal and social sci­ence and, espe­cially, to restore respect for its forms and for­mal­i­ties.… Mans­field argues that while the Con­sti­tu­tion is a means to ends out­side itself, its forms include an end — self-government — that deserves our loy­alty even when it is …

June 29, 2007 – 4:04 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

On Blogging, Having An Opinion, and the Quality and Trustworthiness of Your Voice

Way too long: the essen­tial point is that blog­gers were paid to not merely run ads, but pro­mote the con­tent of those adsI feel sorry for Jeff Jarvis, because he’s fight­ing the good fight, and I’m not sure how this war is to be waged. Can we tell peo­ple that get­ting paid to pro­mote stuff is …

June 26, 2007 – 8:00 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging, kant, media | Tagged | Comments (5)

Question: Should Political Science Exist? Why?

Q: Why should Polit­i­cal Sci­ence even exist? A: Most peo­ple rea­son in the fol­low­ing man­ner — they have a feel­ing, and they need to back that feel­ing up with an argu­ment, and so they look for things to make an argu­ment. Rea­son starts and finds its “end,” in such cases, in mak­ing people’s argu­ments invul­ner­a­ble to …

June 25, 2007 – 1:12 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Comments (0)