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Tag: Beings and Doings

  • Claude Lefort 1924-2010

    He died October 3rd. He had a robust theory of bureaucracy and he worked throughout his life to conceptualize the fundamental disconnect between democracy and totalitarianism. He is perhaps most famous for his book on Machiavelli (Le Travail de L’Oeuvre Machiavel) which tried to recuperate  the political theory from the secular image of “machiavellianism” as scheming or…

  • The Walking Dead

    Last year, I wrote: I’d like to see what a surviving-a-day-at-a-time hero looks like. Whatever collection of writers can come up with that story and characterization will make a lot of money breaking with the current anti-hero conventions. More to the point, it might be good for us. Though we may [not] have had too…

  • Modest Sites

    My latest experiment is to try to write my public policy posts at a new collaborative blog Modest Sites and preserve this blog for more philosophical fare. The title comes from Sheldon Wolin’s classic work of political theory, Politics and Vision: The power of a democratic politics lies in a multiplicity of modest sites dispersed among…

  • A Poster

    This is from a poster session I did at Penn State University last Sunday. It’s incredibly simplistic, as all posters probably end up being, but it was kind of a cool experience so I’m sharing it here. Click on the image to get a closer look: I now support the use of posters to display…

  • Creative Philanthrophy?

    What would you do with $100 and a case of altruism? How about giving away umbrellas during a rainstorm: David Ibnale had no idea how tough it would be to give away umbrellas on Market Street the other day. He figured that he and his free umbrellas were going to change the world. The world had…