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Amazing!!

1:25:00 Ah yes, professor, what we really need here in flyover country is to be penetrated by your class of coastal elites, and impregnated with their robust intellectual sperm.

Suddenly when Universities come under attack ... the liberal/progressive obsession with change transforms into a desire to maintain traditions.

This talk is utterly useless and a great demonstration of how polisci is neither scientific nor does it describe real politics as it actually exists and functions in the real world. Felt like I was hearing some fantasy nerd tell me about the lore of middle earth instead of hearing any description of the real world and how power truly functions. Stop larping and return to the real world.

A better summary, I think: With Christianity, Europe produced the most advanced civilization - the greatest and the best - that the world has ever seen. With Humanism, or the worship of humankind, Europe has faded into irrelevancy.

Unfortunately, my beautiful brother West misrepresents the song lyric “say my name, say my name.” A critical examination of the complete lyrics reveal the song is a liberating anthem and encouragement to women to not be manipulated, to not be disrespected, to not be another conquest, to not be made invisible by a philanderer.

I loved his book. Wonderful program. I wish my kids were studying under him.

I was trained for the Peace Corps at Saint Johns. The summer of '65 104 of us arrived to participate in what is one of the highlights of my life. We were bound for India and Saint Johns prepared us a marvelous adventure. The training program was the idea of Senator Harris Wofford. That summer was like semester of graduate school! Aloha, Tondalaya Crozat Gillespie/India XVl

Thank you for the video. These are very important points that should definitely be taken into consideration when erecting an effective strategy to uproot current capitalist system. However, I think it is also important to add that the act of conquering the state might not appear to be enough, for society still has it's own dynamics (and opinions), and orders coming from above might or might not be taken as something worth following, but still, the solution, in my opinion, would not be really effective if the effort was concentrated merely in the sphere of people's individuality and several "islands of praxis" across the countries. Having individuals working in little bubbles under a regime that fights the very values of these bubbles, in my opinion, would work the same way as a state echoing egalitarian ideas across a land of egotistical individuals. Taking the control of the state might not be sufficient, but it is still essential.

what era is he referring to re: cohabitation between old communists and conservatives in french government?

Great lecture! I guess it means nothing because it's on TH-cam. Maybe if it was on Facebook it would be more evil.

In other words religion does a much better job of installing guilt . It dosent really explain evil except through the myth of Adam and Eve.

The lecture begins at 7:06

Thank you for this discussion.

Someone please link to his lecture, “Facebook is Death”! Really interested in hearing his formulation . . .

This was really interesting and well done. As someone kind of new to Shakespeare, particularly fascinating.

Portable identities.... The advantages are readily apparent, but the risks might be clustered around economic shocks. After a couple of generations those Portable Identities won't probably remember that their identities are portable in which case they become functionally permanent and are then confronted by the incongruity of the permanence of their cosmopolitanism against the persistent localism of the masses. In an economic shock, when the price of resources necessary to the support of a cosmopolitan sensibility compete less favorably with those demanded for the support of the more reliable traditions of family, group, village, etc., the Portable Identity, unmoored as it is to the sensibilities of the huddled masses, can reasonably be expected to lash out violently, like teenager frustrated between the lure of imagined heavens and the comforts of conformity.

Populism is the collective yawn that expedites oxygen to a distracted vigilance.

This was an excellent lecture on Antony by Professor Bromwich. I saw it yesterday, but as I was reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Legend of Good Women,” I came upon a passage which was new to me. In modern English, after Cleopatra kills herself, Chaucer says, “Now, where to find a man as reliable, Who will for love his death so freely take, I pray God may never our heads so ache!” I just wanted to come back to these comments to muse upon if Antony would ever have been a martyr like Cleopatra was for him if Cleopatra had died first.

Shadi is always great and informative.

Just study bullshit

Wow, Prof. Nehamas speaks with such clarity and charisma. Also, Tom sounds like an A+ friend - one to keep!

It’s impossible to get rid of poverty. What West should concentrate on is opportunity not redistribution. That will make poverty negligible.

A wonderful debate. Thanks for posting!

Gowdy mode activated. Makes me proud to be a South Carolinian despite being in California.

My mind can't help but take notes on Gowdy's experienced posture among the rest.

the guy sitting next to Mr Gowdy is an idiot

Trey is so much more competent.

24:34 "A religious view that I think is highly relevant to politics is human fallenness and fallibility.... people are fallen, frail creatures who are prone to selfishness, rapaciousness; given to envy, enmity... in love with power, influence... Democracy's not gonna eliminate any of that. Which is why even our choices within the democratic system have to be subject to moral principles. And why we have to care about the cultivation of virtue in our people... to be an education not simply of mental techniques but of the soul... It's not a matter solely of IQ, it's a matter of disposition and of the heart... Famously, James Madison wanted to design a system of government that would at least in part supply the defect of better motives. Where institutions and institutional structures, and checks and balances, and separation of power, would at least help to male up for the fact that people are frail and fallen and given to selfishness etc... but even Madison recognized that those constitutional structures could only partially supply that effect. That in the end, the justice or injustice of a society...will depend on choices reflecting our character: the virtues or vices of the people." -Robert George

RIP Sheldon Wolin. "Politics and Vision" is a profound book that I have in my library.

Brother West Sheldon Wolin was born in Chicago. ChiTown represent

Thank you for posting. This was an insightful and thought-provoking discussion, but also a prime example of reasonable debate on "controversial issues" in the face of the dissolution of campus free speech we have seen as of late. I would venture to say that if campus culture is allowed to stray much further from the Socratic method, the implications will be much more harmful then "being offended." Great post all around: on content, context, and quality.