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		<title>Cultural Hegemony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In describing the tea party vs. the intellectuals, Lee Harris explains Gramsci&#8217;s notion of cultural hegemony: A generation before Orwell devised the idea of Newspeak, the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci had developed a concept that in many ways foreshadowed it, but with one major and considerable difference. Before Gramsci discovered Marx, he had been a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Harris looks at the Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals: Intellectual critics of the Tea Party movement most often attack it for its lack of ideas, especially new ideas — and these critics have a point. But the point they are making reveals as much about them as it does about the Tea Party. Behind the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intellectuals tend to believe that ideas cause attitudes, Lee Harris says, though it is far more often the other way around: Several years ago, while attending a street festival in the small town of Tucker, Georgia, I came across a booth sponsored by the local libertarian society. At the time, I did not realize that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opium of the Intellectual</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/03/the-opium-of-the-intellectual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern Marxism, Lee Harris explains, is a fantasy ideology dressed up to look like Marxism: Marx and Engels’s wholesale condemnation of all previous socialism as utopian fantasy is the fundamental innovation of their own work. It is the basis of their claim to be taken seriously, not merely by Hoffmanesque daydreamers, but by men of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Akrasia and the Greatest Drug Worker in History</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/03/akrasia-and-the-greatest-drug-worker-in-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t blame drugs for drug addiction, says Theodore Dalrymple, in Romancing Opiates. Richard DeGrandpre makes the same point in The Cult of Pharmacology. Lee Harris offers his own perspective: If the drug induced the moral weakness, then shouldn’t we blame the drug, as the addict asks us to? If the moral weakness was already there, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can Syria Get Away With Murder?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/03/how-can-syria-get-away-with-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Harris reviews Barry Rubin&#8217;s The Truth About Syria, which explains how Syria gets away with murder: Rubin’s fascinating and often mordant book aims to overcome the cognitive asymmetry between West and anti-West by presenting an objective analysis of the very different rules by which our geopolitical opponents are operating, and to make it clear [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Are Still Arguing About Darwin</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/01/why-we-are-still-arguing-about-darwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Harris explains Why We Are Still Arguing About Darwin: The stumbling block to an acceptance of Darwin, I would like to submit, has little to do with Christian fundamentalism, but a whole lot to do with our intense visceral revulsion at monkeys and apes. This revulsion, while certainly not universal, is widely shared, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Stupid Party</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/01/revisiting-the-stupid-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Revisiting the Stupid Party, Lee Harris (The Suicide of Reason) looks at the strengths of being &#8220;stupid&#8221;: The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill bequeathed to modern conservatism a lasting inferiority complex when he dismissed the conservatives of his day as &#8220;the stupid party.&#8221; No one likes to be called stupid, as we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Tradition</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/10/the-future-of-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve cited Lee Harris&#8217;s The Future of Tradition before, but I stumbled across it again, and I find it well worth re-reading: A tradition, [Hayek] realizes, may well be justified by a community on nonsensical or irrational grounds; but this by itself need not make the tradition less useful to those who follow it. If [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from Dan</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/06/message-from-dan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest Message from Dan, author Dan Simmons comments on his recent Time Traveler piece and the threat posed by radical Islam: Why did our fictional Time Traveler return to New Year’s Eve 2005? The paradoxical answer might be that it was the last real time of peace he knew of in the 21st [&#8230;]]]></description>
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