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• Location New York, NY
• Party Democratic
• Politics deliberative social democrat; Kantian cosmopolitan; critical theorist ... in a word, academic.

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• Favorite Blogs Talking Points Memo, FiveThirtyEight, Pollster.com, Andrew Sullivan, Marc Ambinder, Eschaton, Slate, Salon.
• Favorite Books Frank Herbert, Dune; Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf; Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, vols. I and II; Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish.
• Favorite Quotes "Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him" — Fyodor Dostoevsky; "There never was a good war or a bad peace" — Benjamin Franklin; "In a process of enlightenment there can only be participants" — Jürgen Habermas; "Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way for godliness" — Immanuel Kant

Bio

Formerly "bmm" on the blogs. I am presently a Ph.D. Candidate in political theory at the New School for Social Research.