And what a life, dying though it be!
Writers & Poets
I would submit that the new conception of rationality we need is really the old one, the humanist one.
That is strict theology, but it’s unusual to find an agnostic believing in it.
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
I don’t know how many people in the conservative public sphere read George F. Will closely any longer–maybe lots of them do, but as I don’t particularly identify myself with that sphere, I
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
A couple of weeks ago some fine intellectuals, political figures, journalists, and activists associated with this blog gathered together to talk about localism, and specifically how one might discover in our local communities
Finding even a sight line out of doors without buildings, pavement, people, is a task.
Alexandria, VA … On Monday night of this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at Georgetown University at the invitation of the program that I founded and direct, “The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy.” A large
But are we or should we ever be emancipated from “the limitations of local circumstance”?
Springsteen’s music does indeed return to the things that are most important in an hour of crisis. But contrary to popular impressions, these things turn out to have very little to do with politics. They have everything to do with the humane values of tradition: love of family, friends, neighbors, and place.
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part II here.
Collectivism and Statism…
Lewis consequently drew a clear distinction between the reality
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part III here.
Moral Relativism and Utilitarianism…
Of central importance in Lewis’s discussion of
This is Part I of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at the Independent Institute. See part II here and part III here.
For decades, many Christians and non-Christians, both “conservative” and “liberal,”…
Scratching an itch is a great pleasure. But, like all pleasures, it is one small trespass from turning into its opposite.
It was a dark and stormy night when I first met Peter Stanlis. The year was 2000. I had recently become senior editor at ISI Books, and he had just arrived for our first-ever author event. I was glad to…
A proper remembering requires more than telling the facts or chronicling the plunder, rape, murder in Nanking; it requires that one explain the event.
The following essay is by Wilson Carey McWilliams, and is drawn from one of the two new collections of his writings, The Democratic Soul. More information about McWilliams, his thought, and the new books can be found here.
This reflection…
