Results for “Lasch”
Defending Lasch, Left and/or Right
...incomplete one, and Lasch’s own writings show why it is incomplete. While that may not settle Lasch’s place once and for all–which is a bad goal anyway; isn’t the…
From the Editor–Local Culture 2.2: Christopher Lasch
...a photograph of Lasch, ca. 1980. I am grateful to Lasch’s other daughter, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, not only for her reminiscence here but for the photographs included in these pages.…
A Note on Right, Left, and Lasch at the Present Time
...willing to really engage this problem of consolidation and alienation have died out. The poster child of this view? Christopher Lasch. It’s reasonable that his name would be brought…
Voices Against Progress: What I Learned from Genovese, Lasch, and Bradford
...to a book he had written on the American intervention against the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1919, which Lasch considered the origin of our clashes with the Soviet…
Christopher Lasch and the Lasting Dilemma of Localism
...communities we create which are meaningful and real. In the presentation given by Eric Miller–whose recent biography and exploration of the writings of Lasch is must-reading–the unstated binary in…
Bacevich to Miller to Lasch
...can agree that Lasch was not worried about his property values being devalued. But that aside, this article still bothers me in the way it reiterates Lasch's ideology in…
Cooperatives, Lasch’s Prescience, and Political Wisdom
...“How a 1990s Book Predicted 2020.” Ed West summarizes Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites and uses it as a lens through which to make sense of current political and…
Three Conceptions: Laschian, Romantic, and Immaculate
...Flower more beautiful than Innocence. which Christians name, understanding nothing about it, the Immaculate Conception, Mary herself, the sublime Garden regained. One more question: Am I wrong to direct…
Christopher Lasch on Presidental Debates
As the first of the presidential debates approaches, it is helpful (though not necessarily heartening) to turn to Christopher Lasch, whose understanding of American democracy was profound. The following…
Lasch, Old Country Stores, and Intelligent Trees
“Eric Miller on Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry.” Elias Crim and Pete Davis talk with Eric Miller about two of FPR’s guiding lights, and they also share their reflections…
Left (not Liberal) Conservatism (or Communitarianism, if you Prefer): A Restatement
...leftist (but actually liberal) construction that can only conserve a nationalist conception which the aforementioned New Deal world created as a byproduct. Besides Mailer, he would have done better…
Limits, Risk Aversion, and Technocracy
...Christopher Lasch’s later writings. Lasch argued that capitalism, by provoking the expansion of appetite and by exploiting nature in every way possible in order to satiate that appetite, taught…
The Art of Living an Examined Life
...of toilet paper). Two recent books address these same questions and the context for asking them explicitly, thoughtfully, and even lyrically. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness…
In (Partial) Defense of the Liberal Arts Degree
...become criminally undervalued in a ‘cognitive’ age ruled by the digitally-nomadic ‘symbolic analysts’ (to use the term coined by Robert Reich and borrowed subversively by Christopher Lasch). Rowe, a…
Political Hope, Spiritual Longing
...further word. During the time most of these essays were written I was also working on a PhD dissertation on the American historian and social critic Christopher Lasch, which…
Class and Clerisy
...vertical problem, the moral bankruptcy of today’s ruling class, gets reduced to part of the horizontal problem, the rootlessness of modern life. Porchers usually take Christopher Lasch’s approach to…
FPR Conference Program. A Preview.
...Charleston” Panel 2: The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Christopher Lasch Chair: Russell Arben Fox Eric Miller “Putting the Porch in Its Place: Christopher Lasch’s Republican Hope” Robert…
Progressivism vs. Conservatism?
...congratulate the enlightenment of “progressives,” I recommend this commenter (and everyone else, for that matter) read Eric Miller’s extraordinary, superb biography of Christopher Lasch, Hope in a Scattering Time.…
The Culture of Guns? What About the Culture of Narcissism?
...ever expanding and ever worsening culture of narcissism. In The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch applies what psychologists diagnosed as a personal pathology to an entire culture in decay…
The Decline of Middle America and the Problem of Meritocracy
...lyrical, Whiggish view of progress has been challenged. Christopher Lasch’s indictment of meritocracy, best articulated in his final work, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy…
On Memories as a Starting Point: A Review of “Encounters” by Paul Gottfried
...The Socialist Lasch, we find out from Gottfried, maintained through his last years of life “his lifelong hatred of consumer capitalism”. Following the example of the social-Catholic Dorothy Day,…
Eric Miller on The Lost Cause of the Midwest
...the academic historians of the Middle West, from Fredrick Jackson Turner and Charles Beard to the Jeremiah of our age, Christopher Lasch. Brown’s monograph surveys the early- and mid-Twentieth-Century…
Gridlock and the Common Good
...future. 3. Loss of robust debate. Christopher Lasch understood that democracy will fail if citizens do not share a common life, which is to say, a common culture. Healthy…
The Ailing Parson Malthus Project and the “New Sin of Pride”
Anyone who’s had the good fortune to spend time reading Christopher Lasch might be able to identify with the specific experience of risable joy I feel when putting myself…