by Henry Oliner | Mar 15, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
from the Claremont Review of Books, Conservatism After Trump by William Voegeli: And we know that since Trump’s victory the Democrats have been “The Resistance,” not the opposition party. As a result, the hectoring self-righteousness that grievance studies professors...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 11, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
from the Claremont Review of Books, Conservatism After Trump by William Voegeli: The one constant for conservatives, clearly implied by the designation they have chosen, is an acute sense of precariousness. In How to Be a Conservative (2014), the English philosopher...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 25, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
William Voegeli wrote an important book, Never Enough which I highly recommend. In National Review he writes Why the Liberal Elite Will Never Check Its Privilege Speaking of Orwell, his observation that all leftist political parties are “at bottom a sham, because they...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 22, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
William Voegeli wrote an important book, Never Enough which I highly recommend. In National Review he writes Why the Liberal Elite Will Never Check Its Privilege It turns out that “social justice” amounts to noblesse oblige, simultaneously strengthening the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 23, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism
From William Voegeli in The National Review, Hillary’s Empty Moralism Is a Reflection of the Greater Progressive Movement Though conservatives find liberal sanctimony insufferable, complaining about it is beside the point. Self-righteousness is the only kind of...
