The automobile squared perfectly with a distinctive American ideal of freedom—freedom of mobility.
Ted V. McAllister
Today we can easily forget how dark things looked in the 1970s and how much people feared that they might be living in the sunset years of our nation and its characteristic way of life. We forget how important patriotism and a belief in the goodness of the nation were to the health of the republic.
A proper remembering requires more than telling the facts or chronicling the plunder, rape, murder in Nanking; it requires that one explain the event.
Recently I was asked to participate in a symposium on Michael Berube’s “The Left At War” for the journal “Politics and Culture.” I took the author to be scolding those he calls the “Manichean Left” because they threatened the ability…
What is the purpose of education?
Was Nisbet wrong about the quest for community?
It is time to reopen the questions about human nature, about human autonomy, about the desirability self-creation. Liberals should, in brief, broaden their horizons to ponder competing views of human flourishing.
In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having mastered the “technique of anti-propaganda” by sapping public interest in government, by deflating enthusiasm for programs, projects,…
Nostalgia is, therefore, an index of alienation, communal decrepitude, and, at high levels, cultural patricide.
Heaven forbid. . .
Moorpark, CA…. We are told to be careful with our words, to be aware of how our words might make other people feel or of how we might be misunderstood. However important is this advice (and it is
This week I received a directive (the precise source of the directive is not clear nor is the intent) to demonstrate that in my classes I teach my students to become “citizens of the world.” I will spare you other…
Moorpark, CA…. This is the main body of a lecture I delivered at the ISI Spring Leadership Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 14, 2007. This conference focused on the work of Russell Kirk.
In one of the great works of imagination,
A colleague directed me to a blog written by a leftist friend of mine—someone whose views on everything from metaphysics to politics are radically different from my own. We have not seen each other for years but we had worked…
Moorpark, CA…. The first time is not always the best, but it is often the most revealing. The first time I saw Casablanca I brought a borrowed memory of seeing it. “Here’s looking at you, kid” fell on my
