What Conservatism Is Not
In 2014, Sir Roger Scruton famously proclaimed that “conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”…
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A Preview of “What is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times.”
In 1989, a young scholar named Francis Fukuyama published an essay with the provocative title “The End of History?” in the National Interest. He argued that, with the fall of…
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Grievance-Mongering and “Anti-Elitism” on the American Right
Conservatism, once the ideology of erudite intellectuals like Edmund Burke and Irving Babbitt, an ideology whose adherents pushed for the promotion and preservation of Western civilization and for the conservation…
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What Thomas Sowell Taught Me about Being a Dissident Feminist
Thomas Sowell is a legendary economist and social scientist, and that most disconcertingly contrarian of public intellectuals: the black conservative. Aged eighty-eight, he was born in the South and raised…
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What the Left and Right Can Learn From Each Other
It’s no secret that we’re living through a period of widening political polarization. Social media and social fragmentation have secluded us in our own political bubbles, where we rage against…
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What The Coddling of the American Mind Fails To Spell Out. Book Review.
I agree with Steven Pinker that The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is “among the most important…
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