Comments on: Irving Kristol, 1920-2009 http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 318Aeling@gmail.com http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-707395 318Aeling@gmail.com Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:12:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-707395 I cling on to listening to the newscast speak about getting boundless online grant applications so I have been looking around for the most excellent site to get one. Could you advise me please, where could i find some? I cling on to listening to the newscast speak about getting boundless online grant applications so I have been looking around for the most excellent site to get one. Could you advise me please, where could i find some?

]]> By: Scott http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-35160 Scott Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:59:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-35160 Kristol, Fukuyama, intellectual frauds to the core; I'll put them beside Leo Strauss and his boy scout philosopy. The above "men" are for those who don't know what real intellectual work is: Kolakowski, Koestler, Stove, T.C.R Horn. Kristol, Fukuyama, intellectual frauds to the core; I’ll put them beside Leo Strauss and his boy scout philosopy.

The above “men” are for those who don’t know what real intellectual work is: Kolakowski, Koestler, Stove, T.C.R Horn.

]]> By: Robert Schwalbaum http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34796 Robert Schwalbaum Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:20:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34796 I just caught a Brian Lamb interview of Kristol from 1995. Brian lamb is absolutely the most brilliant interviewer anywhere. It was on BOOKTV I just caught a Brian Lamb interview of Kristol from 1995.

Brian lamb is absolutely the most brilliant interviewer anywhere.

It was on BOOKTV

]]> By: tanstaafl http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34733 tanstaafl Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:32:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34733 Unrecognizable shapes, progressivism as incompatible with the United States Constitution <i>For the pragmatist, the Constitution and its express limits on democratic energy must be negated lest necessary and positive change be wrongly arrested....this conception of government as necessary to the protection of man’s natural rights...is simply incompatible with progressivism.</i> <b>The denatured person seen by progressivism requires an unlimited government to deploy the operations and powers necessary to unlock social progress.</b> Sound familiar ? <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmYxZWQ2YzIyMzljOTIxYWUwNDE4NzZlNmEyZDFhODQ=&w=MA==" rel="nofollow">The Undoing of American Constitutionalism</a> Unrecognizable shapes, progressivism as incompatible with the United States Constitution

For the pragmatist, the Constitution and its express limits on democratic energy must be negated lest necessary and positive change be wrongly arrested….this conception of government as necessary to the protection of man’s natural rights…is simply incompatible with progressivism.

The denatured person seen by progressivism requires an unlimited government to deploy the operations and powers necessary to unlock social progress.

Sound familiar ?

The Undoing of American Constitutionalism

]]> By: Rod Johnson http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34720 Rod Johnson Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:40:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34720 Rest In Pieces, like the entire failed neoconservative platform whose failure helped give us Zero the Idi0t 0bama. Rest In Pieces, like the entire failed neoconservative platform whose failure helped give us Zero the Idi0t 0bama.

]]> By: Sherab Zangpo http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34719 Sherab Zangpo Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:35:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34719 We need more trolls on this thread. They are so horrifying that they will help America to understand which kind of fascism is currently "under construction" for our future. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. RIP and pray for us, I.K. ! We need more trolls on this thread.
They are so horrifying that they will help America to understand which kind of fascism is currently “under construction” for our future.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

RIP and pray for us, I.K. !

]]> By: tanstaafl http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34714 tanstaafl Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:20:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34714 <i>The leverage of ideas is so immense that a slight change in the intellectual climate can and will — perhaps slowly but nevertheless inexorably — twist a familiar institution into an unrecognizable shape.</i> An observation highly relevant to the ongoing battle between individuals who believe in the founding principles of the United States and individuals who want the country to go in another direction, the direction of "transnationalism" where international law supersedes the American Constitution. Administration legal advisor Harold Koh is one of the most vocal proponents of this kind of new world order. Eric Holder would seem to be on board, and some SC justices, most notably Ginsburg, seem amenable to the idea. Transnationalists have been working long & hard, relentlessly even, to achieve their end of annulling the US Constitution. Legal arguments about the status of "detainees", for example, have a much larger context than the facts at hand. In Irving Kristol's words "...slowly but nevertheless inexorably" <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGQ2OWYyMGVlZWI1ZmM3ZmZhNTU3YTg3NjQ3N2Q2Nzc=" rel="nofollow">Recent thoughts from Andrew McCarthy</a> The leverage of ideas is so immense that a slight change in the intellectual climate can and will — perhaps slowly but nevertheless inexorably — twist a familiar institution into an unrecognizable shape.

An observation highly relevant to the ongoing battle between individuals who believe in the founding principles of the United States and individuals who want the country to go in another direction, the direction of “transnationalism” where international law supersedes the American Constitution.

Administration legal advisor Harold Koh is one of the most vocal proponents of this kind of new world order. Eric Holder would seem to be on board, and some SC justices, most notably Ginsburg, seem amenable to the idea.

Transnationalists have been working long & hard, relentlessly even, to achieve their end of annulling the US Constitution. Legal arguments about the status of “detainees”, for example, have a much larger context than the facts at hand.

In Irving Kristol’s words “…slowly but nevertheless inexorably”

Recent thoughts from Andrew McCarthy

]]> By: rogerT http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34707 rogerT Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:39:07 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34707 Kristol - a good man? All I know is that the only favourable review of Himmelfarb's Darwin book that I came across was in Encounter without any mention that Irving was her husband. That really shows character. Kristol – a good man? All I know is that the only favourable review of Himmelfarb’s Darwin book that I came across was in Encounter without any mention that Irving was her husband. That really shows character.

]]> By: mezzrow http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34705 mezzrow Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:26:03 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34705 (sigh) This display by the creature dubbed Now and Then makes me stop and consider what sort of individual would make a "hobby" of the sort of behavior we see here. Something immediately came to mind. I am reminded of the "Pranknet" individuals credited with a variety of incidents whereby innocent people have been directed to do destructive, dangerous, or disgusting things. Search the Smoking Gun archives under pranknet for a detailed report on what kind of "people" we are referring to here. Those who treasure the lessons taught by Irving Kristol are secure in the knowledge that each individual is responsible for his own life and the fruits of his living will be seen in the world he leaves behind. A comparison of the fruits of the pranknetters and N&L against the fruits of the life of Irving Kristol and his family and acolytes will give us the clearest gauge of their respective worth as human beings. Karma indeed. (sigh)

This display by the creature dubbed Now and Then makes me stop and consider what sort of individual would make a “hobby” of the sort of behavior we see here. Something immediately came to mind. I am reminded of the “Pranknet” individuals credited with a variety of incidents whereby innocent people have been directed to do destructive, dangerous, or disgusting things. Search the Smoking Gun archives under pranknet for a detailed report on what kind of “people” we are referring to here.

Those who treasure the lessons taught by Irving Kristol are secure in the knowledge that each individual is responsible for his own life and the fruits of his living will be seen in the world he leaves behind. A comparison of the fruits of the pranknetters and N&L against the fruits of the life of Irving Kristol and his family and acolytes will give us the clearest gauge of their respective worth as human beings.

Karma indeed.

]]> By: mishu http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-1920-2009/#comment-34698 mishu Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:31:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1564#comment-34698 N&T, criminal? based on what evidence? other than you're an a$$h@l3. N&T, criminal? based on what evidence? other than you’re an a$$h@l3.

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