Browsing All posts tagged under »Stephen Harper«

STFU Margaret Wente: Argumentum ad Populum

December 23, 2011

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From Margaret Wente’s latest column: “If you are a faithful follower of the mainstream media, you will … know that Mr. Harper is guilty of valorizing the military, being indifferent to the plight of downtrodden aboriginals and clamping down (at vast expense) on imaginary crime. He has also created a quasi-totalitarian world called Harperland in… [Read more…]

Jarvis Street, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and the Politics of ‘Fuck You’

June 29, 2011

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The most imporant defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is that it is terrible. That’s not what I’m going to write about tonight. The second most important defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is a bit more interesting: it is really big on definitions. Analytic philosophy is the foolish dream of breaking down questions like “do we… [Read more…]

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