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BRENNAN-MARQUEZ: Naked Marxist Fangs
Lamentably, my Marxist fangs have retracted somewhat since graduating from college. Montana’s remarks on equality offer a propitious opportunity to bare them once again. Among the reasons that Marxism...
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MONTANA: Some Thoughts on Locker Room Nudity
I don't like you because you're dangerous. That's right, Ice... man. I am dangerous! To a Friend – Not Brennan-Marquez – Who Wishes There Were More Privacy in Locker Rooms Dear Theophilus, Let’s take...
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MONTANA: Living in the World
It is amusing that Brennan-Marquez uses pseudonymous symbols in an essay about the dangers of anonymity. Let me personify matters, dear reader. Brennan-Marquez is the brash X, I am the temporizing Y,...
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BRENNAN-MARQUEZ: Why Anonymity?
He prefers anonymity, too. A dialogue to analyze: X: I plan to publish an argument in favor of view Ω on my personal blog. Y: View Ω is very far outside the mainstream—to many, it will be offensive. I...
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BRENNAN-MARQUEZ: Stopping Alien Invasions Helps the Poor, Too
Montana’s general claim—that “military spending offers trade-offs rather than simply regressive effects”—seems uncontroversial. Nearly everything offers trade-offs. What I hope to show is that...
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MONTANA: Is Military Spending Good for the Poor?
This is not the right way to look at it. Let’s play a game to show why traditional political alignments are arbitrary. Here’s the game: I want to advance the controversial point that liberals should...
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BRENNAN-MARQUEZ: Bring it on, evil genius!
Both Descartes’s argument and Anselm’s argument posit a specific metaphysical relationship between ontological perfection—“being perfect”—and existence. Specifically, both arguments maintain the...
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MONTANA: Descartes’ Psychological Exercise
If you take Descartes' ontological argument as an argument, this shirt is an effective rejoinder. Descartes’ ontological argument appears to be much simpler than Anselm’s. Reading it is like watching a...
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MONTANA: Burke(an)-Marquez
The maxim of legal conservatism is: In theory, the power of law to right wrongs is unlimited, but in practice, fallible men are only capable of righting wrongs to a limited degree. This will remain so,...
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BRENNAN-MARQUEZ: Are there limits to Law’s Empire?
Legal cases can be divided into three categories, corresponding to the way that law engages with the underlying claim of being-pained: 1. Cases in which the underlying pain is both legally...
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