am # Didn’t Mrs. Obama herself state that the Senator was going to make us work?
I believe she did. Whether we wanted to or not, and that there’d be no going back to our old ways. Comment by Sdferr on 5/13 @ 11:17 am # Dan Dennett, I’m afraid, will probably support B. Obama. I don’t know it for a fact, but would put a small frivolous wager on it. Still, it has always seemed strange to me that Dennett has failed to take in the lesson Socrates, that other philosopher, taught, namely that if one speaks openly, in public as a philosopher they will eventually come for you and make an end of your troublemaking speech. Comment by Jeff G. on 5/13 @ 11:17 am # Uh, so you found a conservative who doesn’t agree with Goldberg’s book, sashal, so what? Goldberg covers the “policy” — hell, it ran throughout the New Deal and prior. And he also notes, quite rightly, that given our system fascism was likely to take on a different, softer form in the US. But it isn’t just he who noted this. Contemporaneous to fascism in Europe, the New Republic was noting its strains taking root here
