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31 May 2008, 8:04 pm
Crispin Sartwell, a professor of political science at Dickinson College and philosophical anarchist, has offered the following challenge:A Philosophical ChallengeMy irritating yet astounding new book Against the State (SUNY Press) argues that all the arguments of the great philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Hegel, Rawls, Nozick, and Habermas, among others), are, putting it kindly, unsound.The state rests on violence: not the consent of the governed, not utility, not rational… [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 3:56 pm
_trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.amazon.com');" target="_blank">Charlotte’s Web one too many times, but I have to believe that there might be a particularly talented, irresistably anthropromorphic, pig out there somewhere who could actually be taught to sing.Which, on balance, they probably won’t anyway [read post]
30 Jan 2011, 1:07 pm
Inequality is self-limiting to a degree; if it generates tremendous envy and resentment, the government will be under irresistible pressure to adopt redistributive policies. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 6:55 am
The Court noted that section 77 of the Marine Liability Act expressly provides that owners of vessels are responsible for clean-up costs in the absence of fault or negligence: (3) The owner’s liability under subsections (1) and (2) does not depend on proof of fault or negligence, but the owner is not liable under those subsections if they establish that the occurrencestyle> (a) resulted from an act of war, hostilities, civil war or insurrection or from a natural phenomenon of an… [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 10:08 am
They are people who: (a) don't must trust politicians, and want to know they care about something larger than themselves, their party, and the interest groups that support them; (b) don't much trust government, and instinctively gravitate towards candidates who seem to care about the role that civic and religious institutions can play in public life; © don't much trust elites, whom they suspect do not and cannot commit themselves to any particular set of moral absolutes; (d)… [read post]
11 May 2014, 10:45 pm
Ultra-processed, empty-calorie food, with its irresistible holy trinity of sugar, salt and fat, is what Big Food does best, according to “Fed Up. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 7:54 am
Cities are where strangers live companionably side by side, and when they share ceilings and floors rather than just walls, the temptation to peep is well-nigh irresistible. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 5:02 am
He then makes an argument whose logic is rooted in the world of computer security, but which offers an irresistible appeal, to me, for confronting graffiti and vandalism crimes:It can be argued that detection is actually counterproductive. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 12:31 pm
You know what young, sexy associates find irresistible? [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 5:40 am
In a move irresistibly described in many headlines as the “iQuit,” Steve Jobs’ announcement that he is stepping down as Apple CEO this week, has left investors and consumers—including millions in legal—wondering what’s next. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
Now, vanadium pentoxide (V205) is not one of those compounds that leaps trippingly off the tongue, but with a title like that, it was an almost irresistible read.The study looked at peripheral white blood cells from vanadium production workers and controls and tested for several DNA damage endpoints: Micronuclei (MN), nucleoplasmic bridges (NPB), nuclear buds (Nbuds), oxidized purines and pyramidines (oxidized bases), and some others. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 11:50 am
"- Online Privacy Considerations (And Outrages) for Lawyers to Ponder (by Rocket Matter LLC):"Apparently, users willingly accept the wholesale collection of their personal Facebook information in return for the almost irresistible allure of growing virtual carrots. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 7:47 am
The opportunity to explore Kenya and other African countries was irresistible so we moved to Nairobi when a vacancy opened. [read post]
23 May 2011, 1:54 pm
Economic realities make such deals irresistible as long as they are condoned by the courts. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 2:08 pm
This all adds up to a cost/benefit analysis that is irresistible for cyber-attackers, and essentially guarantees that the pace and sophistication of attacks will not let up any time soon. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 2:51 am
When some judge's campaign guy looks you in the eye, with that overly sincere squint, and asks for a contribution, there's an irresistible urge to lay your money down. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 5:22 pm
He seizes upon a belabored sexual analogy: TSA lines give us (him) performance anxiety, causing us to fumble about, alarmed at any change in routine, thwarting us from the smooth, economical physical movements that, Astaire-like, make us sexually irresistible to virginal women. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 1:47 pm
Greatly improved contraception (notably the pill), improved treatments of venereal diseases, increased privacy, relaxation of parental controls, continued declines in family size, and increased divorce rates (in part a consequence of lower birthrates and women’s greater access to the job market)—all factors that reduced procreative relative to nonprocreative sex (in part by increasing the prevalence of nonmarital sex)—put irresistible pressure on the Catholic… [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 5:57 am
However, it is the political version of the Dead Sea Fruits that were irresistible to pick but would turn to ashes in one’s mouth. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 8:36 pm
A great persuading storyteller — whether at trial or elsewhere — is not a dispassionate, neutral reciter of text, but instead becomes part of the story himself or herself, drawing people irresistibly into the circle of the story and even into the character and very being of the storyteller, with the purpose of persuading — not manipulating — the audience. [read post]
