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To: Neocon who wrote (1321)	11/10/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Neo, a further comment on "ideological bias." You write: If, say, I excluded Picasso because he was a Communist, or Heidegger because he was a Nazi, two things you know I detest, then you would have something. Well, Picasso's Communism was peripheral to his work. Heidegger is a more complex case, but here too many argue that his Nazism was peripheral to his work. The problem comes when you don't personally approve of the ideas someone explicitly propagates in his work, or of the institutions/policies those ideas provided the underpinning for. Keynes & the New Deal is a case in point. No intellectually respectable person these days defends Hitler or Nazism; plenty, however, can be found who positively assess both Keynes and the New Deal. So your excluding this obviously influential thinker from your list is a sign of your own ideological predisposition. No?