Free at last! I have just been discharged from hospital after my final procedure yesterday afternoon.
Before I went down for surgery they placed a cross on each foot. 543 more words
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Foreign Policy in the Liberal Tradition: The Real Story
Over at the Niskanen Center, Matthew Fay wrote a blog entitled “Thinking about Libertarian Foreign Policy.” Brandon was so nice to point this out to me. 954 more words
On Positive and Negative Liberties
While reading through Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge I began to ponder on the role that systems of rules play within our discourses on liberty. Foucault’s text sets out to define Archaeology, and comes to the conclusion that “Archaeology defines the rules of formation of a group of statements” (167). 1,219 more words
Reversing the Control
562 more wordsMaybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death.
