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THE CHANGING FACE OF THE SUPREME COURT
In 1962, I found myself at the hem of history. That fall, I had the good fortune to begin clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. Between the time I accepted the job and the day I began work, Felix Frankfurter had left the Court, and Arthur Goldberg took his place. The balance on the Court shifted, with a dedicated liberal replacing the Court's premier conservative. The Warren Court technically had begun in 1953, when Earl Warren became Chief Justice, but 1962 marked the beginning of the heyday of a memorably activist period in the Court's history. The Warren Court's historic decisions are both legion and leg-endary-'Brown v. Board of Education', one person, one vote in legislative apportionment, and the nationalization of criminal procedure in state courts, to name but a few. The work of the Warren Court was, of course, highly controversial, spawning a debate over the Supreme Court's proper role that continues to this day.
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The further adventures of Red Sonja
\"She lived in a savage world in an uncivilized age - a world ruled by men and governed by the sword. The[y] called her... Red Sonja - for her flame red hair, and for the smoldering fire of her pride, which gave her sword-arm a strength that few men could match, and none had ever defeated. This collection contains a variety of issues from the original Marvel Comics series 'The Savage Sword of Conan,' as well as Sonja Tales from 'Kull and the Barbarians,' with each page re-mastered for this volume. Also included is a gallery of pin-ups by Frank Thorne, Howard Chaykin, and more. These tales are where it all began, and set the stage for the current Red Sonja series from Dynamite Entertainment\"--back cover.
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The primacy of the political
The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts this dilemma into fresh perspective, proving our contemporary political problems are not as unique as we think.
Howard begins with democracy in ancient Greece and the rise and fall of republican politics in Rome. In the wake of Rome's collapse, political thought searched for a new medium, and the conflict between politics and antipolitics reemerged through the contrasting theories of Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas. During the Renaissance and Reformation, the emergence of the modern individual again transformed the terrain of the political. Even so, politics vs. antipolitics dominated the period, frustrating even Machiavelli, who sought to reconceptualize the nature of political thought. Hobbes and Locke, theorists of the social contract, then reenacted the conflict, which Rousseau sought (in vain) to overcome. Adam Smith and the growth of modern economic liberalism, the radicalism of the French revolution, and the conservative reaction of Edmund Burke subsequently marked the triumph of antipolitics, while the American Revolution momentarily offered the potential for a renewal of politics. Taken together, these historical examples, viewed through the prism of philosophy, reveal the roots of today's political climate and the trajectory of battles yet to come.
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Cuando la Nueva Izquierda se encontró con Marx
En los años 60 del siglo □□, una nueva izquierda releyó a Marx por fuera del dogmatismo de los manuales y fijó su atención en sus escritos de juventud. Esos años ?intensos? tuvieron expresiones diversas, entre ellas las nuevas izquierdas en Estados Unidos, al calor de las luchas por los derechos civiles; las de Francia, influidas por los movimientos tercermundistas; y las de Alemania, que revisitaron los textos filosóficos fundacionales.
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The Politics of Corruption in Indonesia
This paper explores corruption in Indonesia using a number of measures and indexes. It discusses the role of different officials in Indonesia's political landscape, as well as the country's changing attitudes and policies toward corruption. Despite increasing prosecution and public embarrassment, there is little evidence that corruption in Indonesia is on the decline. The piece concludes by examining necessary reforms.
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From Anti‐Communism to Anti‐totalitarianism: The Radical Potential of Democracy
The Very Nature Of Democracy Makes Its Defence Difficult. In a democracy, the majority has the right to be wrong and the opportunity to make public its private passions while acting on its personal interests. What is more, democratic tolerance of pluralism and legitimation of social conf lict ensure that democracy will be characterized above all by self-criticism. As a result, when it is threatened, its enemies will find at least some domestic support from those who despair of democracy, or at least of this democracy, and who convince themselves that a better, more substantial or less superficial, democracy can be brought into being. Such critics of the really existing democracy are convinced that they are acting in the name of real democracy. So it was, for example, that the American Communist Party could claim to incarnate ‘twentieth-century Americanism’ following the same logic used by Marx a century earlier to criticize the ‘merely formal’ nature of bourgeois democracy. But so it was too when the CIA took it upon itself to finance not only political opposition to Soviet inf luence but also to support and encourage what Francis Stonor Saunders's recent study of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters revealed. The shared logic of the CIA and the communists turns out, as the saying goes, to be no accident.
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Claude Lefort: a political biography
Claude Lefort fundamentally challenged the positivist conception of a society seen from above, composed of distinct and autonomous spheresof economic, legal, theoretical and aesthetic authoritywhich would be recombined every time in a different way by different political regimes/
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