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The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange
As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me to agree with everything Glenn Loury has said in his compelling article “Tucker and the Right”...
Tucker and the Right
Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a dispute about policy agendas, foreign alliances, or the boundaries of political discourse. It is a deeper conflict—a struggle over the meaning of conservatism itself...
The Case For Black Patriotism
It seems only a few years ago that I was calling myself “a man of the left.” Well, like the Jewish intellectuals who became “neoconservatives” in the 1960s and...
Why We Didn’t Overcome
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama by james t. patterson basic books, 228 pages, $26.95 The memo...
The New Liberal Racism
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal by andrew hacker scribner’s, 272 pages, $24.95 The shockingly violent reaction to the Rodney King verdict, destined to be remembered...
Two Paths to Black Power
The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate about public philosophy ongoing among black Americans. The fact is that Thomas,...
Black Dignity and the Common Good
(Editors’ Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.) Therefore, since we are surrounded...
