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Did Liberalism Fail? A Conversation with Patrick Deneen
Patrick Deneen argues that “Liberalism has failed—not because it fell short—but because it was true to itself.”
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Jonah Goldberg’s Soulless Case for Liberty
PlusOne/Shutterstock.comJonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West introduces us to a (mostly) soulless rhetoric of liberty.
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The Rivalry and Friendship of Jefferson and Adams: A Conversation with Gordon...
Gordon Wood discusses his book Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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Our “Great American Middle” and Aristotle’s Golden Mean
The principles drawn upon to create the American republic were true in the time of Aristotle, in the time of the Founders, and in our own time.
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Hamilton, Madison, and American Oligarchy: A Conversation with Jay Cost
Jay Cost, author of The Price of Greatness, discusses the political and economic debates between Hamilton and Madison.
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Unlearning The Founding Myth
Image: Freedom from Religion FoundationAndrew Seidel misunderstands: America’s founders embraced the freedom of religion; not freedom from religion.
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The New York Times Resurrects the Positive Good Slavery Argument
Advertisement for "American slavery distinguished from the slavery of English theorists, and justified by the law of Nature" by Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D. The “1619 Project” can deliver on its...
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Founding Deists and Other Unicorns
The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington DC commonly referred to as Washington National Cathedral (Brian P. Irwin/Shutterstock.com).Were the founders influenced by Christian...
View ArticleThe Tale of Two Revolutions and Two Constitutions
The closing of the XXX Olympic Games, in both French and English, reminds me of Charles Dickens who in the nineteenth century wrote famously about the Tale of Two Cities—Paris and London–separated by a...
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A New American Myth
In politics, our myths are more important than our history. The stories that tell us who we are as a nation are the most powerful political tools in times of economic, military or cultural stress....
View ArticleThe Right against America
Robert Nisbet was certainly a conservative theorist of some prominence, as Mike Rappaport indicates. Mike was picking up on Steve Hayward’s post, which called to task today’s “quantum conservatism” for...
View ArticleAn Eternal Introduction
When I read the preface, I thought: What a great story awaits the reader. The authors of The Constitution: An Introduction, Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen, father and son, spent nine summer...
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The Wrath of Cons
David Brooks is in an angry and spiteful mood. Perhaps he’s even getting to be a bit unhinged, as history is putting his vision of American conservatism onto its rubbish heap. As Ben Shapiro recently...
View ArticleThe United States Must Not Become a “Normal Country”
Peter Thiel gave an interesting speech endorsing Donald Trump. Many people are very unhappy about the endorsement. I am ambivalent about this aspect, because it is beyond my poor powers of calculation...
View ArticleJonah Goldberg’s Soulless Case for Liberty
Liberalism isn’t doing well these days. Besieged on many fronts, it stands in need of a defense that will conjugate the modern case for liberal democracy with the full heritage of Western...
View ArticleUnlearning The Founding Myth
Andrew L. Seidel, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is an atheist, and an angry one at that. His recent book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, is, in...
View ArticleThe New York Times Resurrects the Positive Good Slavery Argument
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a Law & Liberty symposium on the 1619 Project. One hundred and sixty years ago citizens in the United States (or, at least as many as sufficed) rightly...
View ArticleFounding Deists and Other Unicorns
We need to know what the word plethora means before we can say we have a plethora of piñatas. So, too, we cannot consider whether or not America had a Christian founding without having an idea of...
View ArticleThe Tale of Two Revolutions and Two Constitutions
The closing of the XXX Olympic Games, in both French and English, reminds me of Charles Dickens who in the nineteenth century wrote famously about the Tale of Two Cities—Paris and London–separated by a...
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A New American Myth
In politics, our myths are more important than our history. The stories that tell us who we are as a nation are the most powerful political tools in times of economic, military or cultural stress....
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