Author: jonwuka
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Against Sotomayor
The end of the U.S. Supreme Court may happen within my lifetime. While it persists, it is an institution which will only do harm. Yes, it can be argued that the Supreme Court has made rulings which have made American society and business less oppressive to those vulnerable but this must be coupled with the…
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Against Class Struggle
I have chosen a provocative title for this piece but it is chosen for a specific context. At present, socialism-communism is on the back foot worldwide and has been at least since the fall of the Soviet Union. The United States exerts authority over a majority of world states, even if it does not have…
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Against Dyson’s Feynman
One thing that I think Dyson gets quite wrong is his assertion that only Christianity is very interested in theology. To state this about the other Abrahamic religions is farcical, though I grant that Islamic and Jewish treatises on the nature of God may not have been available to him at the time he wrote…
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Against Military Fatalism
“The king is everywhere primarily a warlord.” This statement can be found in (Gerth & Mills’s 1947 English translation of) Max Weber’s Essays in Sociology, and is a good example of what I’ve always seen as a bitter fault of viewpoint or approach. This bitterness is nevertheless sweetened by the valuable insights that follow on from…