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Finally, after more 1.7 million Cambodians were slaughtered under Khmer Rouge more than 30 years ago, some members of that communist regime are being brought to justice. Communism has never had its Nuremberg Trials--instead some communists went on to become major political players in new governments after their regimes collapsed. Putin is the poster boy.
Perhaps these Cambodian tribunals we lead to others like them, but
I doubt it--and that's primarily because people still hold to the faith
that communism was noble in theory (that is, that sacrifice to the
group, especially the wealthy to the poor, is good) but failed in
practice (but only because those who practiced it didn't do it right).
— Joseph Kellard
- 6/26 European anti-Keynesianism
- 6/26 Philosophy of mathematics applied to calculus
- 6/26 Regulation
- 6/30 Interesting warning to parents on phonics
- 6/30 Free philosophy books
- 6/30 Calculus--a postponement
- 6/30 OCON
- 7/2 Did Keynes recant on his deathbed?
- 7/2 More against "meme"
- 7/4 Allan Gotthelf festschrift
- 7/4 Academic article by Ben Bayer
- 7/6 Greed is good
- 7/6 Government prohibits Gulf cleanup
- 7/6 Bertrand Russell on "number"
- 7/8 My answer to Russell
- 7/8 Jeff Jacoby nails it on communism
- 7/8 The end of NASA
- 7/8 Government interference with Gulf cleanup
- 7/9 Administrative note
- 7/9 Key quote from Adam Smith
- 7/9 Not so lame ducks
- 7/9 Krugman says black is white
- 7/14 "Heavy Randian Influence"
- 7/14 Climategate update
- 7/16 The lessons of an arithmetic paradox
- 7/16 Religion vs. Morality
- 7/19 Linguistic vs. conceptual change
- 7/19 Lee Bollinger's assault on a free press.
- 7/21 Connections
- 7/23 The face of evil
- 7/23 Senate shelves cap-and-tax
- 7/23 Republican control of Senate possible
- 7/24 No post--going to Ireland
- 7/27 Pi--does it count?
- 7/27 Elena Kagan vs. the truth
- 7/27 2G--who knew?