The Noble Lie

Just to kick off the new semester on this blog, and since we were talking about it in class, I thought some of you might be interested in this discussion of whether or not it is politically dangerous to ask about how your state came about, and whether any answers you find should be papered over with myths and lies:

http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/09/%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-and-kant-on-philosophical-taboos-or-on-the-demise-of-philosophical-history.html