Andy Catlett: Early Travels
Andy Catlett: Early Travels. Wendell Berry. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006. Wendell Berry is a philosopher, and an important one in this postmodern era, who…
Andy Catlett: Early Travels. Wendell Berry. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006. Wendell Berry is a philosopher, and an important one in this postmodern era, who…
In the 1930's, Hutchins had reorganized the undergraduate program at Chicago around a core of "Great Books" taught by the Socratic method. There were no electives. Hutchins…
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Jonah Goldberg. Doubleday, 2007. Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism finds that…
Tumbling Liberal Defense An awareness of the depth of the critique ranged against liberal theory is what has inspired its late flowering in our own time. Viewed…
The normally turbid Donaukanal that borders Vienna's city center has caught my eye today. It seems unusually clear and the sun is actually sparkling off its surface.…
In one sense liberal theory and politics have always been in a state of crisis. Even in its earliest appearance in the reflections of John Locke and…
The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the Western national states in the fifteenth…