Considering that many of the scholars that blog here are, to one degree or another, Straussians, I found this blog over at Spengler . . . well, informative. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2010/10/22/leo-strauss-destroyer-of-judaism/ Because I’ve not read Strauss and what . . . . Continue Reading »
17-20 November 2010 A Conference Hosted by the Tocqueville Project of Brigham Young University, with Funding from The John Adams Center for the Study of Faith, Philosophy and Public Affairs and The Sutherland Institute. Is the Constitution as understood by the Founders at risk? If so, then . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Okay, so that title makes no sense. But I did see part of the CMA awards show the other night. 2. Marc Guerra, America’s leading theologian, reminds me that I haven’t posted on the wonderful conference (the first in our University of Chicago Science of Virtues/Stuck with Virtue . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Sabato and Abramowitz , two of our most astute and fair-and-balanced political scientists, are now certain that our president will serve only one term. Either he will be defeated for reelection (by anyone but Palin) or he will bow to the inevitable and decide soon to not seek reelection. 2. I . . . . Continue Reading »
[Conclusion of the astute synopsis by Mr. Entel, followed by his even more astute questions:] Plato, Hancock contends, enacts this yoke between being and knowing by seemingly affirming the simple superiority of theory to practice, thus suppressing the question of the relation between the good of . . . . Continue Reading »
unlike peter, i never predict an election. but i do postdict. here is an account of the election that will shortly appear in the crb Facts speak for themselves. The Democratic Party under Barack Hussein Obama in 2010 suffered the greatest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. What may be the GREATEST issue in America’s leading journal of the philosophic dimension of political science is now out! 2. There’s a SYMPOSIUM on Bob Faulkner’s THE CASE FOR GREATNESS, featuring Don Maletz, Andrew Sabl, Mary Keys, Wayne Ambler, and Bob himself responding with . . . . Continue Reading »
1. You really do need to be checking out NO LEFT TURNS now and again to keep up with the astute insight of Pete Spillakos . He explains—riffing off an article by Beran—that Obama is no Bill Clinton. He’s both better and worse: He’s positioned to be able to protect the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I was wrong: The results for the House, combined with those for the Governors and state legislatures, are genuinely impressive. The Republican party is now the more national and more dominant one. It’s also clearly a policy-driven result—a fact the MSM is attempting to obscure . . . . Continue Reading »
(More excerpts here from Manent’s new book of interviews, Le Regard Politique – i.e., Seeing Things Politically ) When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him . . . Aron desired less than any man to exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I . . . . Continue Reading »
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