Color me quite nervous, after watching the trailer of the forthcoming film version of Coriolanus linked to here. It seems to be the tired old shtick where you adapt Shakespeare’s Romans or Danes or Scots by dressing them up in modern military uniforms, which tends to convey the idea that the . . . . Continue Reading »
F. Flagg Taylor’s The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism is now out. I got my copy yesterday (Flagg’s a good friend and colleague) and the afternoon was shot. One brilliant essay after another: Aron, Havel, Milosz, Strauss, Solzhenitsyn, Arendt . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock’s other significance in relation to modernity, which David Bowie understood better than anyone, is that it sanctions a new type of heroism, that in contrast to, say, an astronaut’s bit part in a space-flight that is essentially the military-industrial establishment’s . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s where I’ll be Thursday through Sunday at the American Political Science Association meeting. You can see me at two big shows: Thursday at 2, I’ll be on a Claremont panel with Hadley Arkes, our own Jim Ceaser, Pat Deneen, and Matt Spalding on the place of natural rights in . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . analyzed by ME (in a tonedeaf and otherwise clueless way) . . . . Continue Reading »
For never are the ways of music moved without the greatest political laws being moved. Plato, The Republic, 242c And so they say, this the golden age . . . U2, “New Year’s Day” At this point one might well wonder why I am bothering with rock, having abundant reasons to dislike the . . . . Continue Reading »
It occurs to me that we need to start some kind of contest on who can think of the most important way Tocqueville was wrong (hint: Ignoring the Declaration of Independence has been done). Meanwhile, here’s a neglected aspect of his teaching on religion (which is all good): Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Despite the scenario differences, Pete and I agree that we need a candidate that’s an articulate policy wonk. 2. That means, at this point, Romney or Christie. 3. Romney just can’t can’t the love going, and he won’t win Republican primaries. 4. Christie is a conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So the advice to Romney about not choking is sound. He certainly shouldn’t be attacking Perry. David Brooks on THE NEW HOUR gave him the ridiculous advice of trying to taint Rick wtih corruption, of portraying him as just another Delay. It doesn’t seem to me that Perry is . . . . Continue Reading »
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