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		<title>Away for the next few days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind on the work I’m supposed to be doing — talk to all of you later. Hopefully I’ll have lots more to share afterwards. I want to actually write something positive and uplifting one of these days. Contrary to how whiny this blog gets, I don’t spend a lot of time complaining — I spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Note on Machiavelli’s Discourses, I.7 and I.8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is rare that reading classical history or philosophy overlaps with anything we’re going through today. In fact, I want to eliminate many of the entries where I’ve contended that something is wrong because it doesn’t match up with some older example of how things should work. These are very tricky issues to sort through, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links, 8/31/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Cost, “Health Care Reform Has Endangered the Democratic Majority” — I’d be interested to see numbers that find a Democratic incumbent unelectable purely because of his stance on health care. I suspect enough of us are aware of entitlements to know we can’t afford another entitlement, especially not one this massive. The more general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/links-83110/</link>
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		<title>Daniel Barenboim, Mozart Piano Sonata No. 7, K 309</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1st movement: Allegro con spirito &#124; 2nd: Andante un poco Adagio &#124; 3rd: Rondo allegretto grazioso Not much to say — this and Piano Sonata No. 11 have been recent addictions of mine. Barenboim’s dynamics are clearer in this recording than in No. 11, and that matters quite a bit in the second movement especially, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/daniel-barenboim-mozart-piano-sonata-no-7-k-309/</link>
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		<title>The Value of an Education, Perhaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent this morning reading some of an essay by Heidegger, copying down a poem of Yeats’ into the journal (yes, I keep a pen and paper one). There’s Plato’s Gorgias to finish reading, and try to put together with the Protagoras and the Greater Hippias. I’m very happy with how the third part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/the-value-of-an-education-perhaps/</link>
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		<title>Links, 8/26/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Flowers, “After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend “The Newspaper” as The Best E-Reader on the Market” (h/t Josh) — from the article: The Newspaper display could be read at full size or, when flipped open, twice its normal width. We also had no trouble reading copy when the display was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/links-82610/</link>
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		<title>Does Conservatism Have a Future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I have been going back and forth on this. His claim is that much of the stuff I see now in campaigning will drop away when it becomes time to govern. The playbook is simply “just throw as much crazy stuff as you can at the opposition, get something to stick, win, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/does-conservatism-have-a-future/</link>
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		<title>Links, 8/24/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Darnton, “A Republic of Letters” — from the article: By enjoying a short-term monopoly on the publication of their writings, authors would be encouraged to share their ideas in print. How short should the term be? The copyright act of 1790 set it at 14 years, renewable once. The founders took this limit from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/links-82410/</link>
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		<title>Emily Dickinson, “As Frost is best conceived” (951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“As Frost is best conceived” (951) Emily Dickinson As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result - Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect - If when the sun reveal, The Garden keep the Gash - If as the Days resume The wilted countenance Cannot correct the crease Or counteract the stain - Presumption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/emily-dickinson-as-frost-is-best-conceived-951/</link>
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		<title>Links, 8/22/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Megan McArdle, two links to pictures of ATM card skimmers — devices used to steal your credit card number and PIN that not many people know much about: The Consumerist &#124; Krebs on Security Doug Schoen, “Obama Policies Turning Off Voters” — from the article: The Benenson survey shows that the administration’s approach is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ashokkarra.com/2010/08/links-82210/</link>
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