Is America Devolving into Soft Totalitarianism?
What should a democratic people fear in their leaders? That depends on the character of the people. When the great French philosopher and statesman Alexis de Tocqueville…
What should a democratic people fear in their leaders? That depends on the character of the people. When the great French philosopher and statesman Alexis de Tocqueville…
I recently attended a conference on statesmanship. Truth be told, there are reasons to be ambivalent about statesmanship. While public service is a great virtue, the statesman…
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so…
All nations have constitutions—whether written down or not. Why? Because every nation must have rules determining who gets to govern and how. And you don’t need to…
Americans’ attitudes toward lawyers and the legal system are filled with ironies. We complain that lawyers are money-grubbing sophists who win cases even when their clients are…
More than any other event in the second half of the twentieth century, the Cold War affected international affairs and societies around the world in countless ways.…
This chapter is a summary of Michiganders’ view of three Cold War events: the communist infiltration of labor unions in the 1940s, McCarthyism in the 1950s, and…
Education is the task of crafting the souls of students; it is never simply about conveying information so that students can enlarge their body of knowledge. While…
You may be surprised to learn of the growing movement to dispense with the study of American politics as a distinct subfield of political science, but this…
Aristotle and America As Aristotle observed in Book 8 of his Politics, the education of children is the preeminent concern of the state, for the cultivation of…
“We are immigrants still, who travel in time, Bound where the thought of America beckons; But we hold our course, and the wind is with us. -Richard…
The American Road Trip and American Political Thought. Susan McWilliams Barndt. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. Susan McWilliams Barndt’s new book is motivated by a provocative premise:…
In 2006, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum conducted a survey to measure Americans’ knowledge of their First Amendment constitutional freedoms (the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly,…
The United States Constitution in Film: Part of Our National Culture. Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books, 2018. In his opinion…
Francis Graham Wilson (1901-1976), an eminent political scientist, lifelong scholar of public opinion, and a central figure in the postwar American conservative intellectual movement, was born near…