Comments on: Intelligent Design, holocaust denial, and postmodernism http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2005/11/stanleyfish10oct05/ Schrodinger's tagline is both clever and banal at the same time Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: *** Dave http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2005/11/stanleyfish10oct05/#comment-789 *** Dave Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:15:30 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=348#comment-789 The advantage of “conservatism” and “liberalism” being package deals is that one particular aspect of them cannot, for too long, hold the whole group.  While the social conservatives seem to hold most sway in the conservative halls of power right now, there’s only so far they can push, and already there are fractures between them and the other brands of conservatives out there.

As a coherent political philosophy, “conservatism” and “liberalism” are hopelessly vague (and often self-contradictory).  As flags to rally around, they have a certain utility.

]]> By: Tom Harrison http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2005/11/stanleyfish10oct05/#comment-788 Tom Harrison Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:29:49 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=348#comment-788 That first one sounds like something Lazarus Long would say.

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