Does the Mainstream Media Still Shape Public Opinion?
"Never has anyone ruled on this earth by basing his rule on any other thing than public opinion." In these words, Jose Ortega y Gassett, most famous…
"Never has anyone ruled on this earth by basing his rule on any other thing than public opinion." In these words, Jose Ortega y Gassett, most famous…
After Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27 of last year, the editors of Commonweal singled out one moment as the sharpest…
The following is an interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College, about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones: Book 1: Sketches…
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the March 1st Movement, which sparked the Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule (1910-45) and now is celebrated in South…
Every second year, the first week of January is a time of change in US politics. Some senators and members of the House of Representatives leave national,…
Populist waves have been a constant in American politics at least since the Jacksonian era of the early nineteenth century, and traces of populist sentiment can be…
Consider the American family, never so vexed. Take marriage in particular. Writing in The Christian Science Monitor, Stephanie Hanes reports: "In 1950, married couples represented 78 percent…
An ongoing debate in American political science regards the dispositions of the factions within American society towards one another; some scholars argue that a culture war obtains,…
The intellectual culture of the philosophes, what Alexis de Tocqueville called esprit revolutionare,[1] is what political theorists today understand is a form of "political religion." The term…
Throughout its history, baseball has at times been viewed as a means of disseminating morality among the American populous; at other times, baseball is nothing but a…
As a document written in the 1700’s, all the framers of the U.S. Constitution as well as their immediate relatives, friends, and colleagues are now deceased. We…
Understanding the American Pursuit of Happiness Happiness is now the serious study of human well-being. As the study of happiness becomes more serious and exact, happiness researchers…
The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime: Political Theory in Literature. Elizabeth Amato. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In a time marked by enormous economic…
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions. Michał Kuź. Warsaw: Lazarski University Press, 2016. Michał Kuź’s Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions is…
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class. Leslie G. Rubin. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Today the middle class in the United States…