Anarchy. Extracts from "The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1: The Spell of Plato" by Karl Raimund Popper (Originally written from 1938 to 1943. Published 1945) - Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage. Lachlan passed away in January 2010. As a memorial, this site remains as he left it.Therefore the information on this site may not be current or accurate and should not be relied upon. For more information follow this link (Referring to Vol. 2) "Bertrand Russell described this study, with its companion volume on Plato, as ' a work of first-class importance which ought to be widely read for its masterly criticism of the enemies of democracy, ancient and modern.
His (Popper's) attack on Plato, while unorthodox, is in my opinion thoroughly justified. His analysis of Hegel is deadly. Marx is dissected with equal acumen, and given his due share of responsibility for modern misfortunes. The book is a vigorous and profound defence of democracy, timely, very interesting, and very well written. " "The general guiding principle for public policy put forward in The Open Society is: 'Minimize avoidable suffering'. " "The vital question is not 'Who should rule? ' The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens.
Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hillarys had once been mentionable in the same breath. On a first-lady goodwill tour of Asia in April 1995—the kind of banal trip that she now claims as part of her foreign-policy "experience"—Mrs. Clinton had been in Nepal and been briefly introduced to the late Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest. Ever ready to milk the moment, she announced that her mother had actually named her for this famous and intrepid explorer.
The claim "worked" well enough to be repeated at other stops and even showed up in Bill Clinton's memoirs almost a decade later, as one more instance of the gutsy tradition that undergirds the junior senator from New York. Sen. Perfect. During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. The Nature of Contemporary Democracy.
By David Dieteman In medicine, no patient can be cured unless he is first properly diagnosed. Herpes is not a rash, and warts are not dry skin. In law, no case can be won without a proper legal theory to explain past human actions. What might be construed as an unjustified breach of contract might, in fact, be a fully-justified anticipatory breach — anticipatory because one party to the contract has come forward to declare that he is financially unable to fulfill his obligations. A proper diagnosis is no less essential to politics. Over time, this constitutional scheme has been wiped out. The federal government — indeed, government at any level — is no longer regarded as existing for the sake of enforcing the rules of just conduct (property law, contract law, and the laws governing private wrongs such as defamation or trespass, known as the law of torts), but rather for the sake of organized looting — robbing California to pay West Virginia.
First, this is not news. No, it isn't. Mr. "International Trends" journal. The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the crushing of the Prague Spring - 20-08-2003. It has been thirty-five years since Soviet troops began entering Czechoslovakia late on August 20th and early August 21st in a carefully orchestrated invasion designed to crush the period of political and economic reforms known as the Prague Spring, reforms led by the country's new First Secretary of the Communist party Alexander Dubcek.
A movement viewed by Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet hard-liners in Moscow as a serious threat to the Soviet Union's hold on the Socialist satellite states, they decided to act. In the first hours on the 21st Soviet planes began to land unexpectedly at Prague's Ruzyne airport, and shortly Soviet tanks would roll through Prague's narrow streets. Within hours foreign troops would take up strategic positions throughout the city, including surrounding the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, taking hold of Wenceslas Square, and eventually taking over Czechoslovak radio and television. The occupation of '68 had begun. The tanks roll in. Mario Cuomo - Keynote Address at the 1984 Democratic NationalConvention. Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA Entire Video of Address at EVG [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. (2)] Thank you very much.
On behalf of the great Empire State and the whole family of New York, let me thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. In fact, Mr. Maybe, maybe, Mr. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. You know, the Republicans called it "trickle-down" when Hoover tried it. It's an old story. That's not going to be easy. U.S.