On Dec 27, 2003, at 11:24 AM, knowknot at mindspring.com wrote:
> We would be greatful if some of you more knowledgeable
> savants on this List would be good enough to explain what
> the agenda of David Brooks might be, and why, in his
> description (in his 12/27/03 N.Y. Times column) of
> Michael Oakeshott as a "big thinker" who is "one of the
> most most important philosophers of the 20th century" (a
> question Brooks does not actually purport to answer in his
> column)? Thanks very much.