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Friday, December 9, 2016

Book Review of Samuel Bowles' The Moral Economy

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I recently published a review of Samuel Bowles' fine new book, The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizen...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Retribution

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It is never good news to find yourself disagreeing with Martha Nussbaum. And yet her newest book, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generos...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Richard Hofstadter on Immigrants and the Progressive Movement

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I had always assumed that immigrants fit reasonably well into the progressive coalition of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of cours...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Two Concepts of Nationalism

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A terrific conversation over lunch a couple weeks ago got me thinking about an important distinction between two concepts of nationalism. ...
Monday, October 3, 2016

John Schaar on Equal Opportunity

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John Schaar condemns equal opportunity as wickedly conservative in a classic 1967 paper . It's a shame this line of thinking hasn't ...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

G.K. Chesterton on the Wisdom of Fables and Fairy Tales

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I recently stumbled across a very fine C.K. Chesterton introduction to a 1912 edition of Aesop’s Fables . With all his characteristic insig...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

"Fractured Republic" Reflections Part Three: The Benedict Option and the Melian Dialogue

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This is part three of a three-part review of Yuval Levin's The Fractured Republic. See also the  introduction , part one , and part two ...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

Against Usury

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The following is adapted from a speech I gave at the Yale Political Union in the Spring of 2015 on the topic: Resolved, Nationalize Banks. M...
Friday, September 2, 2016

"Fractured Republic" Reflections Part Two: A Democratic Solution to a Democratic Problem

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This is part two of a three-part review of Yuval Levin's The Fractured Republic. See also the  introduction and parts  one  and three ...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

T.S. Eliot on "Social Justice"

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T.S. Eliot in a footnote in "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture" I must introduce a parenthetical protest against the abuse...