[lit-ideas] Re: First Rational Discourse creates al Qaeda, now... battle PhDs?

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:54 -0700

Eric asks
Is there an ideological inference here? An unremarked elephant of Nietzschean resentment at the symposium?
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