Mark Mitchell’s Politics of Gratitude (Theoretical and Otherwise)
To continue with the excellent discussion begun by R.J. Snell, Mark Mitchell's fine and thoughtful book is filled with important insights and challenges, which...
The leaders we deserve
I'm heading back to the United States this month to spend some time with my family, and I'm headed back to an America whipped...
Who Was Richard Blaine? Myth, History, and the Great American...
Moorpark, CA. The first time is not always the best, but it is often the most revealing. The first time I saw Casablanca I...
Democracy Is A Racket
War and Democracy
by Paul Gottfried
Arktos Media Ltd
170 pp., $21.00
In this slender volume Paul Gottfried addresses everything from the influence of ancient Greek thought on...
Up Against the Wall
No one was barred from the conversation back when there was a conversation. No dispatch ever read, “Wingnut Henry David Thoreau today issued a manifesto from his compound near Walden Pond…”
Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate
In the current economic and political crisis, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is not likely to be one of the first places that Americans go looking...
Rocky and the New Populism
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.
The Future of Democracy in America
This week I have been lecturing at the Ignatianum Academy in Krakow, Poland. It has been a marvelous experience thus far, including time spent...
Out of the Fissure, Real Energy: A Response to God’s Economy
Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.
On the Use of a Grim Joke and a National Elegy
Until then you’ll welcome into your homes the talking heads who, loving an abstraction, spread a pestilential hatred.