Lincoln, Charity and “We, the People”
They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant…
They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant…
Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft. Angelo M. Codevilla. New York: Basic Books, 2009. As a professor, former U.S. Naval Officer, Foreign Service…
I write here in a synoptic way, summarizing themes addressed more fully [elsewhere] for the purpose of concisely clarifying the meaning of Americanism. Let me open with…
The philosophical and political import of common sense is strikingly suggested in a passage from Eric Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections. The passage has the additional merit of highlighting…
No matter whether the empirical structural analyses of "political life," including the in-depth studies of individuals and groups, are intended to supplement, deepen, or confirm an understanding…
Only after the convulsions of World War II did American self-criticism very reluctantly abandon the influence of monumental history. The search of representative minds in the humanities,…
On the level of pragmatic existence, the watershed results from the civilizing process. Self-contained, autonomous, independent agrarian America is transformed into urbanized, industrialized America, and this new…
A Citizen Legislature. Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips and A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Keith Sutherland. Charlottesville, VA and Exeter, UK: Imprint…
It's the Regime, Stupid!: A Report from the Cowboy West on Why Stephen Harper Matters. Barry Cooper. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2009. Only a political theorist…
While virtually everyone has agreed that the American founding and the generation that achieved it were extraordinary, of towering significance and formative importance in modern history, what…
The Social Function of the World of National Symbols Even before 1860, the infinite variety of civic associations of every sort and with different public and private…
With the exception of Washington, all the Founding Fathers had, of course, to travel the road from the controversial to the noncontroversial sphere. Franklin, Jefferson, and Lincoln…
Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality. Stefan Rossbach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University press, 1992. “One of the typical phenomena…
Monumental History The process by which the founders' consciousness created itself a social field in the new society and the authority of an ultimate source of order…
Customary Liberal Silence Discussion of an existential depth to our discourse inevitably engenders a degree of methodological discomfort. This is particularly the case among theorists whose occupation…