by Henry Oliner | Feb 28, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Persuasion at Substack, The Contradictions of American History by Michael Walzer: It’s a mistake to deny the contradictions of our history, but it isn’t easy to live with them. We (some of us, anyway) long for the Founding Fathers as we once saw them: Washington...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 18, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Put Down the Torch, Pick Up a Book: One of the most important arguments for freedom of mind — the freedom that comprehends freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, freedom of inquiry, freedom of...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 15, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
Harvey Mansfield is now 89 and a political philosophy professor at Harvard, considered a leading authority on Tocqueville. He wrote a 60 page introduction to Democracy in America in the 2000 Chicago Press edition. The intro alone is worth the price of the book. From...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
From Kevin Williams in National Review, Sarah Palin vs The New York Times: Our friends in the media who bemoan the rise of Donald Trump and Trump-style politics — which is to say, the politics of lies — have some penance of their own to do, because it was not...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds at New York Post, Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it: A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The...
