tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post6606208240660691067..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Reason and EmotionDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-70235366337998297642010-02-04T16:22:04.381-05:002010-02-04T16:22:04.381-05:00Thank you for this insightful article. Indeed, I ...Thank you for this insightful article. Indeed, I have found that the guise of reason has been used to justify the baser human emotions. I observe our human evolution is frought with struggle between our perceptions and experiences in time alongside those that seem to be a mystery or that which is beyond our control. You suggest balance as a remedy. I heartily agree.Lisa Townsendhttp://www.hhogr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-22301003457279840992008-05-31T13:09:00.000-04:002008-05-31T13:09:00.000-04:00The post on reason and emotion was lucid and, in i...The post on reason and emotion was lucid and, in its way, provocative. Part of the American political experience has always been more ideological than admitted, from the even-tempered, cogent compromises of our Founders who elevated property and individual rights over piety to the great economic and cultural successes of the post-WWII order. <BR/><BR/>in that context, the 60's drive for inclusiveness marks a confluence of campaigns for individual rights finally breaking through racial and gender barriers. Beneath the public pageantry of say, the civil rights movement, was Niebuhr's and Arendt's painful grappling with the irrational impulses that had unleashed such destructive force in Europe during the war. But your point is well taken -- this past half-century has achieved more by way of expanding the rights of citizens and less in terms of leavening the economic inequities that have only gained in social acceptance since Reagan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-32294894438362496062008-05-16T11:38:00.000-04:002008-05-16T11:38:00.000-04:00Dear Professor Kaiser: I have enjoyed reading your...Dear Professor Kaiser:<BR/> <BR/>I have enjoyed reading your extremely well researched book and have taught history for several years including a travel class to Dallas on the JFK Assassination. I would like to contact you by email or phone. (I cannot find a way to contact you on your blog and figured commenting was my best option.)<BR/> <BR/>Dr. Bruce Getzan, Dean<BR/>College of the Canyons<BR/>Santa Clarita, CA.<BR/>bgetzan@hotmail.com<BR/>661 362-3144Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com