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| About 505 results Unqualified Reservations18 Apr 2016 ... It's long past time to make this official: UR has completed its mission. If you're discovering UR just now and don't feel like wading through a 2007-era Blogger template, some of the more salient pieces are available as Kindle books, here. Start with the Open Letter or the Gentle Introduction. If you're here ... Unqualified Reservations: October 2011unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/ - Cached 26 Oct 2011 ... ["Your best title yet," a friend of mine declared. Well, certainly my most attention-getting. I'm afraid this post plays a peculiarly nasty Jedi mind trick on you, especially if you're a neo-Nazi or other Holocaust denier. But maybe not only if. In any case, my sensors detected a particularly strong uptick in ... Unqualified Reservations: January 2011unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/01/ - Cached 28 Jan 2011 ... Egypt a century ago, under the firm and inspired hand of Lord Cromer, was a boomtown, a miracle and a paradise. A multicultural paradise, even, with Frenchmen and Brits and Greeks and Jews and Turks and Armenians - all of whom the Century of Fear would later send fleeing with a single suitcase. Unqualified Reservations: January 2009unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/01/ - Cached 29 Jan 2009 ... The trouble with last week's examples is that, while they may convince you that some seriously foul residue has built up in the democratic feedback cycle of State , School, and People, they don't really help us understand just what that gunk is, how it can be pumped back out of the pipes, or how much better ... Unqualified Reservations: June 2009unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/06/ - Cached 25 Jun 2009 ... The contempt for efficiency is carried far even in the liberal professions and in professional customs. We all know the story, perhaps a mythical one, of the judge who said to an earnest young barrister who was conscientiously elaborating a question of law: "Now, Mr. So and So, we are not here to discuss ... Unqualified Reservations: March 201116 Mar 2011 ... This morning my stepfather - a former Hill staffer, National War College professor and author of several specialist historical monographs; an absolutely typical Washington insider - asked me what I thought "we" should do in Libya. We? Do? As I replied, American foreign policy has found its nadir in every ... Unqualified Reservations: January 2008unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html - Cached 31 Jan 2008 ... The other day I had lunch with an old friend, Erik, whom I hadn't seen in a few years. Erik is five or ten years older than me, has a philosophy degree from Berkeley, writes Internet standards for a living, and is generally a very stable, responsible and successful guy, unlike of course yours truly. He lives in ... Unqualified Reservations: March 2013unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/03/ - Cached 29 Mar 2013 ... Laura Wood has a brief eulogy. Larry is gone and so is the country he was born in. To complain of either would be as superfluous. One pathology of our age is a childlike credulity in the magical efficacy of complaint. Don't complain, build. We have done well at complaining; so what? What have we built? Unqualified Reservations: November 2011unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/11/ 14 Nov 2011 ... It is summer, and treachery blurs with the sounds of midnight, The lights blink off at the closing of a door, And I am alone in a warn-out time in wartime, Thinking of those who were trapped by hysteria before. Flaubert and Henry James and Owen , Bourne with his crooked back, Rilke and Lawrence, Joyce -- Unqualified Reservations: May 2010unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2010/05/ - Cached 12 May 2010 ... at the original Froude Society post, where comments are now open. Please do not comment unless you've read at least one of the three canons. If you've read all three, please be patient! Further quests are coming soon. posted by Mencius Moldbug at 12:41 PM ... | ||