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		<title>Against Politics: 15 book recommendations</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2012/01/11/against-politics-15-book-recommendations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anarchism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to communicate the general outlook of a website is to recommend a set of books that embody its perspectives on a variety of topics. Since its inception in 2000 the outlook of Against Politics has undergone some changes but there are a number of core interests that have remained the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humans are still evolving</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2011/11/28/humans-are-still-evolving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashkenazi Jews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Before the Dawn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Cochran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Harpending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Rothbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Wade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Sidney Bigelow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The 10000 Year Explosion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A defining characteristic of ideologies is an implicit or explicit theory of human nature. For example, modern libertarians like Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard derived bold normative conclusions from the fact that humans are endowed with reason. In such attempts, an abstract theory of human nature is made to do more work than it can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard von Mises: Positivism &#8211; A Study in Human Understanding</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2011/10/19/richard-von-mises-positivism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfred J. Ayer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frequentism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John von Neumann]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig von Mises]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Otto Neurath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physicalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard von Mises]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf Carnap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike his rationalist brother Ludwig von Mises, Richard von Mises had strong empiricist leanings, which found expression in his frequency interpretation of probability and his qualified endorsement of logical positivism (or logical empiricism).  His Kleines Lehrbuch des Positivismus was published in 1939 and translated and revised in English in 1956 as  Positivism: A Study in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The atheist conservatism of Gustave Le Bon</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2011/07/15/the-atheist-conservatism-of-gustave-le-bon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Widener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Clericalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atheist Conservatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edmund Burke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Spencer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Allen Nye]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more scholars start recognizing the emerging &#8220;Secular Right&#8221; (or atheist conservatism) there will be increased research into the historical precedents of this phenomenon. There can be little doubt that these scholars will take a renewed interest in Gustave Le Bon. Aside from the obligatory nod to his work on crowd psychology, Gustave Le Bon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What became of the degenerate?</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2011/04/09/what-became-of-the-degenerate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard D. Walter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Survival of the Unfittest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1956, Richard D. Walter wrote a peculiar article in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences called What Became of the Degenerate? A Brief History of a Concept, in which he reviews the use of the term degenerate as a biological and social concept. Most of the literature on this topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal creationism, the unity of nature, and ideology</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2011/03/04/liberal-creationism-the-unity-of-nature-and-ideology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book Feminism and Freedom the philosopher Michael Levin writes: One usually thinks of creationism as a doctrine for religious fundamentalists, but from a methodological point of view, belief in the special creation of the human species is entailed by any refusal to apply evolutionary theory to man. It is irrelevant whether this refusal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Darkness</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2010/12/19/into-the-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Into the Darkness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lothrop Stoddard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig von Mises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1940 the American author Lothrop Stoddard published an account of wartime Nazi Germany called &#8220;Into the Darkness.&#8221; Although the book is supposed to be an objective account, it is not difficult to note the restraint the author needs to exercise to not be more critical, if not scathing, about many aspects of the Nazi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A positive-sum game against nature</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2010/12/19/a-positive-sum-game-against-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony de Jasay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a major economic event (a rapid decline of stock prices, a spike in the price of oil, high unemployment, etc.) the media can be counted on to feature a person who was predicting these events all along. This should not be surprising because there are so many professional economists and commentators who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Stove and the Plato cult</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2010/12/19/david-stove-and-the-plato-cult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horror Victorianorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Popper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Positivism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Nozick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bartley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Stove&#8217;s book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies is a remarkable collection of essays. As a staunch positivist ,the author is not impressed with most of what constitutes &#8220;philosophy&#8221; (or the quality of our thinking in general). As Stove laments in the preface, &#8220;there is something fearfully wrong with typical philosophical theories.&#8221; But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal creationism and transhumanism</title>
		<link>http://againstpolitics.com/2010/12/19/liberal-creationism-and-transhumanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8216;Who is Against Evolution?&#8217;, David Friedman discusses the phenomenon that most people who are against teaching creationism tend to avoid and discourage discussing the human implications of evolution themselves: People who say they are against teaching the theory of evolution are very likely to be Christian fundamentalists. But people who are against taking seriously [...]]]></description>
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