The Watcher’s Council has announced its picks for the most outstanding posts of the preceding week. The winning Council post was Right Wing Nut House’s post, “Is the United States an Imperialist Power and Does It Matter?â€. Second place honors went to Done With Mirrors’s “St. Nietszche” Callimachus’s post notes that religion in the late 19th century had some odd standard bearers. I think it’s worth mentioning that there were other significant figures in religious thought during the same period that Callimachus treats in his post who had rather different views than Nietszche or Wagner. Pope Leo XIII leaps to mind, a real giant.
The overwhelming favorite non-Council post was Pajamas Media’s “How The New Republic Got Suckeredâ€. There was a three-way tie for second place. Second place honors went to City Journal’s “The Peace Racketâ€, Yourish.com’s “Israel and the Double Standard”, and Beijing Wide Open’s “The Technology of Our Dissent”. This last post is a case study that suggests why societies that depend on controlling the flow of information are likely to fail in their efforts.
The complete results are here.
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