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The Third Way – Political essay: Blair, Bush, economics, credit crunch, Obama

Tweet(I see little to change in this essay writen in 2005. However we may hope that getting rid of the worst President in American history and the election of Barck Obama may have changed the political/intellectual environment enough for the complexity of the issues to be better understood and therefore that some coherent efforts might […]

Liberal Values – Essay: Bertrand Russell, Zettel, critical values

TweetLiberal Values – Zettel In a New York Times article in December 1951, prophetically called ‘The Best Answer to Fanaticism – Liberalism’, Bertrand Russell defined liberal values in the form of a liberal decalogue, generously remarking for such a committed atheist and liberal, that it was intended to supplement not supplant the old one. Together […]