An FYI on a nice resource. A friend reminded me today of a website that I have not bothered to look at in a while: Upstream, a resource for "the intellectually heterodox, the politically incorrect and other independent thinkers. A home for outlaws." The site has some gaping holes in its content, but it includes Oakeshott's "Rationalism in Politics," and anti-feminists Steven Goldberg and Michael Levin. There's also an interesting review of a book that I just finished reading, The Western Canon, by the always fascinating Harold Bloom, who says "at once no one and everyone, nothing and everything, Shakespeare is the Western Canon." (Bloom is fascinating and adroit, yes, if you can forgive and forget his WSJ op-ed that called for a military superpower president, namely Wesley Clark.)
May 07, 2004