The calling of social thought: Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils

As someone who is a big fan of Shils I’m very much looking forward to this.

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The Emergence of the Mind: Hayek’s Account of Mental Phenomena as a Product of Spontaneous Physical and Social Orders

Gloria’s chapter.

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Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith: Review

Warm review by Laurie Bréban in Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel

The (“pussy-hatted”) sheep-like disproportionate support offered by the middle and upper classes for the Women’s March, tone-deaf to its Jew-hating leadership, is a now commonplace mainstreamed dissimulation disguised as merely criticism of Israel and buttressed by useful idiots (or shit-puppets as we say in the trailer park). I spent many an hour chatting with Wistrich when he was at UCL.

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Jimbo @ 75

This article from five years ago. Just the other night after a long gap, I watched The Song Remains the Same again with a chum who hadn’t seen it before. Even on a first viewing, the in-your-face pomposity of it all, still didn’t detract from the music that steamrollers one into complete submission.

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Hayek’s Post-Positivist Empiricism: Experience Beyond Sensation

Jan Willem Lindemans’ chapter.

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