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- The Don gets his phone calls returned
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Category Archives: Identity Development
How General Electric Seeks A Turnaround
Under Jack Welch, the market cap value of G.E. topped $400 billion, up from $15 billion. Today, under the leadership of Jeffrey Immelt, GE is the worst performing stock in the Dow Jones. Welch left behind three rules that GE … Continue reading
Posted in Identity Development, Uncategorized
Tagged GE, General Electric, John Flannery
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Apaiser: Peace or Imminent U.S. Defeat, The Parisian Afghani’s & Power Blocks
About 40 miles north of Paris is the lovely town of Chantilly, a town known for horse training. This luxury town is now witnessing the imminent defeat of America throughout the AfPak region. How is this so? America has a … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Empire, Frontier, Identity Development, India, International Relations, Iran, Islam, Russia, Uncategorized
Tagged Afghan Buffer Zone, Afghan High Peace Council, Afghanistan, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Buffer State, Chantilly France, China, CIA, Ghairat Baheer, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Haj Muhammed Muhaqeq, Hamid Karzai, Hazara Shiite, Hina Rabbani Khar, Hizb Islamic, India, Japan, Maldives, Mecca, Muhammed Yunus Qanuni, NATO, Neutrality, Northern Alliance, Pakistan, Proxies, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Taliban, The Great Game, Tournament of Shadows, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan
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Unearned Income & Happiness
Some years ago I picked up a book that chronicled the lives of lottery winners. Most ended badly. Very few didn’t end up either alcoholic or destroyed. Most just spent their way into oblivion. Arthur C. Brooks, the President of … Continue reading
How Western Civilization Triumphed Over Every Civilization
Teaching Aristotle or Plato is often hard if not downright difficult, especially when you try to cover the “epoch” between his time and ours. I mean something very specific. What underwrites Western Civilization is a Judeo-Christian ethic. Prior to this … Continue reading
El Narco: Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
Last summer we heard how Mexico was already a failed State. All the data not withstanding, Mexico was fighting an insurgency, fueled by the twin enormities of a dominant illicit drug trade and inept political institutions. But we miss something … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Identity Development, International Relations, Iran, Mexico
Tagged Drugs, El Narco, Fredrick Hayek, Illicit Drug Trade, Inflation solves drug trade, Mexico Criminal Insurgency
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Castlereagh: The Irish Brit
The daunting challenge for politicos is reconciling realism to morality. Without ‘Natural Rights’ doctrine, this cannot be done! All the more difficult when your Lord Casterleagh, the man responsible for the creation of Presbyterian ‘Orangemen’ that ran the ‘Troubles’ in … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Identity Development, International Relations, Morality, Politics
Tagged Casterleagh, Jon Bew, Metternich, Northern Ireland, Orangeman, Troubles, Unionism
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Structural Unemployment: The New Reality
Other than George Orwell, I can only think of two men who engagingly wrote about the social impact of superior technology on permanent unemployment: Milton Friedman & Peter Drucker. Dr. Drucker is a far more sophisticaed realist than the arcane … Continue reading
Identity & Personhood In Ancient Rome: The Specificity Of Christian Ethics vs. The Eros Of Selfish Property
This blog has dealt sufficiently with the concept of ‘The Specificity of Christian Ethics’ at great length, it cannot be ignored how secular life itself is a perversion of Christianity. This insight will move into greater relief as the West … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Antiquity, Ethics, Identity Development, John Paul II, Sexual Ethics, Theology
Tagged Dasen, Henry the Navigator, Human Identity, Islam, Laes, Legal Positivism, Mediterranean, Personhood, Pincer Movement, Positivism, Roman Childhood, Roman Empire, Sexual Ethics, Silver Mines, specificity of christian ethics, Statius
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James Joyce: The Irish Modernist
Only someone with a classical education can understand what motivated James Joyce, for the modernist within him resisted any neat clarification. Perhaps Samuel Becket alone was capable of residing in a world inhabited by Joyce. How else to say it: … Continue reading
Posted in Identity Development, Poets, Uncategorized
Tagged biogrpahy, James Joyce, Jung, Lucia, modernist, Nora
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How The Secular World Began
Just as contemporary historians and philosophers are finally beginning to ride astride the findings of Catholic theologians on distinguishing variable modes of the Enlightenment (Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Courtney Murray, Henri De Lubac and Gertrud Himmelfard) all come to … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquity, Identity Development
Tagged Cicero, Latin Writers, Secular World Began
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