The now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »
Democracy will only arrive in the Middle East when families and tribes become much less important than they now are. Continue Reading »
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Yale University Press, 736 pages, $35 Hugh Brogan’s Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit of nearly a half-century of labor on an old friend, as Brogan calls Tocque-ville. Throughout his book, Brogan provides a riveting . . . . Continue Reading »
Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy by Michael Zuckert University Press of Kansas, 392 pages, $29.95 Paraphrasing the Gospel of John: In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was One. And the Word brought forth a world. Can the words of man be equally univocal, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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