Results for “Lasch”
Atoms and the Void: A Review of Interventions 2020
...an implicit understanding of the world which rarely needed raising into explicit consciousness. Back then, weighing choices in light of abstract theories was uncommon. Now, as “minimal selves” that…
A Case for the Psychiatric, Part 2: Dostoevsky’s Christianity
...and Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn to diagnose. My sense, however, is that this spiritual “psychiatric” is the “best,” of which the “worst” – the “therapeutic” – which Rieff dissects so brilliantly,…
Time, Pig Farms, and Peer Review
...the continued appeal of Christopher Lasch’s vision: “His is a vision not of heroes and villains, nor of friends and enemies, but of a system that has, through accumulating…
David Foster Wallace, Brian Doyle, and Francis Fukuyama
...and humility before this grace without ceasing.” “Christopher Lasch’s Forgotten Utopia.” Ashley Colby turns to Lasch and Morris Berman to contextualize today’s diverse homesteaders: “Berman suggests that as societal…
Reconciliation, History, and Localism
...is true that ‘equality of opportunity’ ran through the early tradition. Yet as the heterodox historian Christopher Lasch showed, this wasn’t a rags-to-riches ideal. The mere possibility that a…
Against Pessimism
...reappearance is “imperfectly true.” Memory and hope, Christopher Lasch argued – and not pessimism – are the proper antidotes to optimism. Memory and hope are also the proper resources…
Mobilizing on the Left: Progressivism, Populism, and the Language of Political Salvation
...citizens. As many have noted, from John Dewey and Herbert Croly to Christopher Lasch and Wilson Carey McWilliams to E.J. Dionne and Patrick Deneen, this tension has been more…
A (Compromised) Localist Looks at Wisconsin
...troubling as public employee unions. Christopher Lasch noted years ago the inevitable difficulties for and the dangerous backlash against any truly authentic community populism which comes when the efforts…
The Trouble with “Merit”
Jonathan It sounds like Mr. Brooks has been reading deeply into Christopher Lasch. Not that there's anything wrong with that.... Patrick J. Deneen Jonathan, I suspect you're probably picking…
Is Progressivism Sustainable?
...so much as Christopher Lasch's "True and Only Heaven". IMO, "Progressivism" is what the elites came up with to control the plebes after they had destroyed (for their own…
Thinking About Wendell Berry’s Leftist Lament (and More)
...2) that not nearly enough attention was paid to Scruton's work on the American right. It's interesting to note that Kirk died two months after Lasch, and that no…
Modernity, Fecundity, and Being a Competent Geek
...and instead be labeled what Christopher Lasch called them: “competencies.” As he put it towards the end of The True and Only Heaven: Those who believed in progress were…
Practicing the Discipline of Place
...Christopher Lasch, another non-cannonical thinker I had yet to encounter. 5. I think I was essentially correct that the root issue remains love. This I knew from my grounding…
Family Warfare
...American conservatives such as Robert Nisbet and Christopher Lasch, Douthat and Salam only dimly recognize the deep interdependence of social liberalism and market rationality—the former working to erode the…
Against (Gay) Marriage
...… is sheer movement: frequent transitions, shorter relationships” (5). Cherlin’s basic conclusion: American marriage is currently incoherent, valorized because of its past status as a core part of our…
Communitarianism, Conservatism, Populism and Localism: An Updated Survey
...suggest moral and political possibilities at our present moment, seems ludicrous: Christopher Lasch’s old (I think somewhat unfair, but not entirely inaccurate) condemnation of communitarianism as too broad, too…
What’s Modernity Marx Got to Do With It? (FPR vs. PoMoCon, Part Drei)
...Kirk mask”), and, most importantly, to–as Mailer put it–think like Marx (and Chrisopher Lasch, and Wendell Berry, and Ivan Illich, and Dorothy Day, and Juliet Schor, and…). Doing so,…
On the Jewish Question
...designs of localists, and thereby render the whole argument suspect and vaguely disreputable (for another example, see Louis Menand’s treatment of Christopher Lasch in his book American Studies, which…
After the Econolypse
...Just about everyone I know is adjusting to downward mobility. Our political conversation still seems removed from this reality. I think Christopher Lasch was right: the doctrine of progress…
A Tentative Thesis
...Lasch, Reagan, Abbey, and Berry. If true, or even if helpful but false, the thesis produces the following possibly fruitful lines of inquiry: 1) How much of America’s shared…
Radical Homemakers
...appears that she has read neither Chesterton nor Belloc, nor has had any exposure to Christopher Lasch, all of whom are absent in her bibliography, and could have offered…
Mafia Among the Mountain Folk, Part II
...by Christopher Lasch in his book, The Revolt of the Élites and the Betrayal of Democracy. One hardly respects the poor by treating them with the soft compassion of…
Take Me Home
...Longings, Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, ©2012. Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers (www.wipfandstock.com). Dr. Miller is Professor of History at Geneva College and author…
The Dangerous Alliance of Big Government and Big Business
...years ago, and whose rocks were confiscated by the State rock collecting agency. When it comes to the assault on the autonomy of the individual and the security of…
