Below is a lengthy passage (the underlining is mine) about the relationship between the US and Iran. I’ll paraphrase to save your eyes the workout. Iran and the US have narratives about themselves and the other, and everything is interpreted through that…
Rand Paul
I was going to write about this, but here is a take on it. A superior take on it as it encompasses what I was thinking but then adds on and renders it much more clearly than I would have.…
Health Care
Haiti and humanitarianism
I will begin this dialogue with a quotation from Caldwell in 2004: The complexity of the relationship between bio-sovereignty and humanity is most evident in the issue of humanitarian interventions. If such interventions limit nation-state sovereignty, they serve as a…
Wapner 2003
Image via Wikipedia All attempts to listen to nature are social constructions-except one. Even the most radical postmodernist must acknowledge the distinction between physical existence and non-existence. As I have said, postmodernists accept that there is a physical substratum to…
Health Care Reform Again
Image by cliff1066 via Flickr Jeffrey Flier, the dean of the Harvard Medical School, agrees that one of the problems needing to be fixed is the employment based system (the easiest implementation of health care as a negative right). there…
Holding the Good Hostage
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Good vs Perfect I have been interested for years in the debate about how we should pursue a better world. Do we settle for compromises? Do we stick to our guns and demand more…
Health Care and Negative/Positive Rights
Image via Wikipedia The health care debate is really about rights theory. Some will couch their positions in terms of fiscal responsibility and whatnot, but that is a cover for how they feel about rights and a society’s proper orientation…
More about Health Insurance
Every one knows that casinos allow underage people to gamble, they just don’t let them win. I had never, however, made this connection to recission, when an insurance comapny voids a policy after a claim has been filed on said…
The Health Care Debate
Image via Wikipedia I find myself more and more coming to ObamaCare’s, as if there were such a thing at the moment, defense. While not what I would prefer to see it is at least a step in the right…