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In his introduction to Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning, Timothy Fuller elaborates upon MO’s symbol of education as a conversation: The word ‘conversation’ evokes the manner of the ‘conversationalist,’ taken by Oakeshott as one who is the agent of a flow of sympathy, not the utterer of a truth. The conversationalist is neither a [...]
A friend asks me if I can nominate a list of five liberal classics parallel to the five conservative classics covered below. It’s a much harder task since postwar liberalism has been more diffuse and specialized. But in terms of bedrock Cold War liberalism — without branching off into the New Left and various identity [...]
A liberal columnist for the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen the future, and it’s Ron Paul: Over the past 40 years, the trend among young political activists has been the same: The young Left has fought the older generations of the Right (perhaps because it’s simply more fun), with no thought [...]
A little over a decade ago as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis I started a campus conservative paper called the Washington Witness. It’s still going, at least intermittently. I’ve continued to contribute the occasional piece, such as this one, since beginning to make a living out of what I used to do [...]
Filed under: academia, Books, Conservatism
I could almost recommend subscribing to National Review just for Florence King’s column. Her latest says in two paragraphs what I tried to say in “Every Man a God-King“: If the season of town-hall meetings has left you shell-shocked and cringing, you are not alone. Or maybe it’s the other way around: You applauded the [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Last weekend while browsing the philosophy section of the Georgetown Barnes and Nobles I was startled — and pleased — to see a familiar logo attached to some classic works. Regnery’s Gateway imprint is apparently still alive and doing quality work, putting out editions of Rousseau’s The Social Contract, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Marx’s Das Kapital and [...]
Filed under: Books, Philosophy