Thirty Years After 'The Closing of the American Mind'
Relativism, Bloom claimed, “is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it.
Jonathan Church
· 5 min read
Books
A collection of 214 posts
The Novel Isn’t Dead—Please Stop Writing Eulogies
I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations.
Gabriel Scorgie
· 9 min read
From To Kill A Mockingbird to Ballet Shoes: A Plea to Save Children’s Literature
Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding.
Carla Wilson
· 10 min read
Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review
As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.
Matthew Scott
· 11 min read
Reasons to Be Fearful
Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down.
Russell Blackford
· 5 min read
21 Lessons for the 21st Century—A Review
The sheer diversity of the topics discussed in 21 Lessons makes boiling the book down into a short summary that does justice to its scope impossible.
Spencer Hall
· 8 min read
What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy?
Are genetic castes inevitable?
Robert Plomin
· 18 min read
From Party of Ideas to Party of Dittoheads
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
Max Boot
· 10 min read
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique
They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
The Curious Reemergence of Little Platoons
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as “less-evolved” than members of their own party.
Alexandra Hudson
· 4 min read
Helping Children with Autism
Since then, the 'autism' landscape has changed: In the early 1970s, autism had not quite emerged from its Dark Ages.
Bryna Siegel
· 11 min read
Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct
These are the books you should read with great ostentation at sidewalk bistros, corner restaurants, and in doctors’ waiting rooms.
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read
The Fragility of the Liberal World Order
For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.
Doug Stokes
· 9 min read
Nationalism and Liberal Empire
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
A Better Theory of the Human Soul
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse.
Francis Fukuyama
· 11 min read