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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The New York Times' Fascinating Definition of "Open-Mindedness"

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From a piece in the NYT today on Peter Thiel, Trump, and Silicon Valley (emphasis mine): A bigger problem than Mr. Trump’s policy ideas w...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Churchill or Coolidge?

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My purpose in this post is to ask what kind of statesmanship is needed to rescue the American Right. Does the GOP need Calvin Coolidge, or d...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Trump, Tocqueville, and the Leveling of America's Mediating Institutions

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In the current cover story for The Atlantic , Jonathan Rauch—consistently one of the commentariat’s most original voices— diagnoses the cau...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Happy Bastille Day!

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Deprived of the old government, deprived in a manner of all government, France, fallen as a monarchy, to common speculators might have appe...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

Marxism and America’s Contemporary Public Philosophy

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What follows is an edited version of an email I sent to a discussion/reading group on The German Ideology some friends of mine are running....
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Mercy Otis Warren and the Great American Wall

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Mercy Otis Warren, the great polemicist historian of the American Revolution, warned in typical republican fashion that the young American ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

"Consider What Nation It Is Whereof Ye Are" - Brief Thoughts on Brexit

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Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

What Does Islam Teach? A Methodological Inquiry

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Following every act of terrorism perpetrated by some radical Islamist comes the inescapable debate over the character and identity of Islam...

The Problem of Normative Expertise

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Were a student with absolutely no knowledge of the subject to enter into a debate with an expert over the intricacies of cancer treatment, ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The New Campus Faith in Authority

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I have already outlined  what I take to be the broad structural parallels between the contemporary campus left’s attitude toward the univer...