Carl’s Rock Songbook #10, Rock and Roll Patriotism

by Carl Scott

Today was a day for patriotism, and Tocqueville describes two kinds. One is the natural love humans develop for the place and polity they were raised in, for its folkways and so forth. The second is a more reflective patriotism that, aided by enlightenment rationality, “grows with the exercise . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2011

The Greatest Nation on Earth

by David Bentley Hart

Bhutan conforms better than any other modern state to my criteria for national greatness: a sane way of life, a thriving ecology, civilized aesthetic and ethical principles, an absolute prohibition on strip malls, and general harmlessness. Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2010