Walk through Francis Fukuyama's After the Neocons; it offers a useful critical guide to the underlying propositions of neo-conservatism, and what you will find is that most - not all, but most - of them will show up again in idealisms of both right and left in America, even if under other names, because there is an irreducible idealist strain in American foreign policy that will not go away.[1] The point is this. [read post]

Lawgivers have elevated "evidence" to an important place in our legal systems.[9] Indeed, "Evidence" itself is today even a required course of study for students in American law schools.[10] Lastly, in the modern scientific world, empirical "evidence" has ruled the roost for the physical sciences since the days of Leonardo da Vinci[11], Sir Francis Bacon[12] und Henri Poincaré.[13]But what about archaeology and related disciplines? [read post]