Michael Perelman wrote:
Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
Doug
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but you should
search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information whenever you
post. In
Lou expressed my thought better than I did. I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:25:32AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
In
Michael writes:
I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
To be sure, most postings in most PEN-L debates appear as predictable
rehearsals of existing
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28995] Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to clarify differences.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28996] Re: Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
Louis writes:
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but
you should search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information
whenever you post.
That's good, but I like a weaker standard, since not all
I would disagree. It seems to me that maillists are primarily
conversational, and attempts to make them replace printed journals are
mostly wishful thinking. I my only rarely either read or write posts
much longer than 4 or 5 screens. Moreover, issues that really do depend
on large amounts of
As I said, almost everyone. jks
Almost everyone is right; as far as I can tell, yer man Posner is not in
favour of representative government or of extensive civil rights and
liberties in as much as these can't be derived from property rights.
That's unfair to Posner. His notion of what a