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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
It seems that I have much to reply to and I encourage others to step in as well. Because I am working again and because I have posted volumes of stuff over Labor Day, I shall temporarily retire to compose my replies to the following charges: 1. Religion functions as speed for the religionist. 2. Rationalism vs. Fundamentalism (known in seminaries as Fideism): Reconciling Two Freinds 3. Zionist don't have a leg (or a brain) to stand on. Hopefully, I can demonstrate that one can be an Enlightenment liberal and religious. The two worldviews aren't mutally exclusive. Nor is religion a subjective drug that must be taken "on faith" without any proof as the followers of Ayn Rand charge and as Karsten and Laura suggested at Molly's. Zionism is a thinking-man's (as well as a religious man's) credo. If all goes well I will show that liberalism is merely Christianity without Christ( at least that how it started), there is no dichotomy of faith and reason, and every honest American should be a Zionist among other things. But the best part so far is: Laura call me a progressive and took the name conservative for herself. :) I would also like to hear Brent and Vijay's thoughts on today's new discussion topic. |