Tag: idealism

Is there an alternative to the Ted Lasso cynicism-versus-optimism dichotomy, an alternative that recognizes human limitations but nonetheless offers hope? I might start with becoming attentive enough to our ignorance, and expectant enough of our own mistakes that we not overshoot the scale of what we’re trying to do.

I am an unlikely localist. My life is a product of globalization. My mother’s side of the family is from Singapore, China, and India,...

D. G. Hart, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,...

The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision. Politics is not a time machine and...