This week the winning Council post was by Callimachus at Done With Mirrors, who wrote about the wisdom of our founders, who knew that Republics do not last forever:
As Americans set up their infant republic, one of the images foremost in their minds was how republics die. All the classical republics, then knew, had come to an end in anarchy and then tyranny. Classical and modern writers had taken up the theme of the death of a republic so often and so minutely that by the 18th century the process could be described in almost clinical medical terms.
He followed by describing the antidote, and then defining the antidote, in Public Virtue.
In second place was my post on Conservative Fatigue Syndrome.
Among the Non-Council posts, Vox Poplar offers an easy to take and score test to determine if another's religion is worthy of respect, YOU DISSIN' MY GOD! In second place was a tie between Don Surber pointing out the hypocrisy in Kennedy's "Stigma" Is Limbaugh's "Crime" and Neo-neocons pithy exploration of Negotiating with Iran: who's the real enemy?.
As always, the full roster of nominated posts can be found at The Watcher of Weasels and all the posts are well worth your time and effort.
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