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CATEGORY: CLIMATE(15 min)


** Stuck in the middle with whom? ([link removed])
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To make sense of the climate change debate today, you have to understand Manichean paranoia.

What is Manichean paranoia? “[A] politics defined by the belief that the debate is really a battle of absolute good against absolute evil over the future of the world.”

Writing in The New Atlantis, Roger Pielke, Jr. has had enough of this Doom vs. Denial posturing. Reality, he argues, is a lot more complex ([link removed]) .

So you might expect him to give a favorable review of Steven Koonin’s recent bestseller Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.

But his review ([link removed]) is, well, more complex.

What you might find particularly interesting is Pielke’s critique of how “science” is used today . . .

. . . and why matters of policy can’t be resolved simply through “settled,” politicized science.

If you’re sick of being stuck between climate doom and climate denial, read Piekle’s perceptive analysis right here ([link removed]) .
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CATEGORY: THE WEST (33 min)


** The West at the crossroads ([link removed])
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Modern science has placed humanity “at the crossroads of an awesome moral divide ([link removed]) .” That’s Roger Kimball’s argument in The New Criterion. And ever since Oedipus met old King Laius at the fork in the road from Delphi to Thebes, “at the crossroads” has been a profoundly dicey place to be.

You might not be clear on the choice before you . . . nor the consequences ([link removed]) of that choice.

Kimball traces a series of moral and political crossroads at which the West finds itself today . . .

Above all, the fearsome “crisis is values that modern science has helped precipitate.”

Do you agree with Kimball that it’s “impossible . . . for any rational person to say ‘No’ to science and technology”?

Do you share his forebodings ([link removed]) concerning what these crossroads might bring?
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** Gala for Western Civilization ([link removed])
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October 13 will be a night to remember.

At ISI’s sixteenth annual Gala for Western Civilization ([link removed]) in Washington, D.C., you and hundreds of other ISI friends and supporters will partake in an evening that will be unforgettable.

This year ISI will be showcasing top academic talent across three disciplines: political theory, economics, and history. We want to provide our alumni and supporters with an opportunity to experience some of the greatest conservative minds of our generation. The evening’s speakers include:
* Chair of the Department of History at the University of Dallas, Susan Hanssen, who will give the keynote address
* The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield, who will receive ISI’s Charles H. Hoeflich Lifetime Achievement Award
* Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, Glenn Loury, who will receive ISI’s Faculty Award

It should be a wonderful evening ([link removed]) full of great conversation.


Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.

Pepperdine Graphic Says “Students Don’t Owe Alumni or Parents Anything.” I disagree ([link removed]) via Pepperdine Beacon

Cornell Should Adopt the Kalven Report ([link removed]) via The Cornell Review

CATEGORY: MODERNISM (34 min)


** The root of our 20th-century nightmares ([link removed])
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Consider the “science”-driven catastrophes of the 20th century. The Holocaust. The millions murdered by Stalin and Mao. Atomic bombs.

Was it a coincidence? Bad luck?

No ([link removed]) , argues Linda Raeder in Modern Age: “The philosophy of Eric Voegelin offers insight into the causes of the twentieth-century nightmare . . . bound up with the very nature of ‘modernity’ itself.”

This far-ranging essay shows how Voeelin diagnoses the great modern ideological movements (communism, fascism, national socialism) as “the extreme manifestations of a form of spiritual disorder or psychic disorientation that springs from certain tensions inherent in human existence.”

As we grapple with doom vs. denial ([link removed]) and find ourselves at the crossroads of the West ([link removed]) , we would do well to read more Voegelin ([link removed]) to understand our world today.
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Thought of the Day:
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“A good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”

— St. Augustine


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