Leviathan Then And Now

Policy Review - Neither liberal relativism nor liberal postmodernism, both of which, like Hobbes’s political theory, are based on the rejection of the idea of an ultimate aim or greatest good, calls into question Hobbes’s grounding of the foundation of freedom and equality in the indignity and inefficacy of man’s natural condition.

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Kuća nije hladna kad je čeljad gladna

B92 Blog by  Vlasta92 - Moje domaćinstvo spada među onih 150.000 hiljada domaćinstava u Vojvodini koje se ove zime verovatno neće ogrejati. Možda, ako budemo počeli da živimo život sa slika naivaca. Sneg, a iz odžaka salaša vije se dim put sivog neba. Do sada su nam računi za gas bili oko 12 [...]

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The radical left’s wet dream, or chaotic market logic?

Independent - It’s the intellectual chaos that is the really frightening thing. Those who believe most fervently in the free market are the very people who hate most the spectacle of watching free-market favouring governments attempting to save it.

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USA to give several warships to Ukraine as humanitarian aid

Pravda - Ukraine and the USA consider a question to deliver several US warships to the Ukrainian Navy free of charge, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said at a press conference after a meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister Yury Yekhanurov, Interfax reports.

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The world needs the US to get over its cultural civil war

Guardian, by Timothy G. Ash - Enter Sarah Palin, the Katyusha rocket of red America. (I trust she won’t mind a Russian analogy since, as she has informed us, you - or at least she - can see Russia from Alaska.) The selection of such an obviously under-qualified candidate for vice-president can only [...]

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McCain and W

Nation - I recommend Oliver Stone’s new bio-flick, which brilliantly captures the “banality of evil” that has controlled our political life these past eight years. This phrase from Hannah Arendt’s characterization of the mundane cruelty that so marked the daily experience of European fascism has a frightening applicability to the Republican leadership that [...]

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HTV-ova kola nizbrdo

H-Alter, by Vesna Kesić - Dan D u hrvatskom suočavanju s činjenicom da organizirani kriminal više ne preže ni pred čime, HTV je popratila podjednako neprofesionalno i politički kontraproduktivno kao što su to do sada radila tri temeljna sustava koja bi se trebala uhvatiti u koštac s organiziranim kriminalom – pravosuđe, policija i [...]

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