Conservatism
Every now and then, patterns emerge from my scattershot reading habits. Here’s Jeff Jacoby on public education in America: Americans differ on same-sex marriage and evolution, on the importance of sports and the value of phonics, on the right to bear arms and the reverence due the Confederate flag. Some parents are committed secularists; others…
The New York Times piece, “Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus” explains how a scientific “consensus” came into being that a low-fat diet was best (despite evidence to the contrary) (via Dale Light). How’d it happen? We like to think that people improve their judgment by putting their minds together, and sometimes…
Fred Hutchinson has a quick summary of the 5 kinds (are there more?) of conservatism and their historical roots. Offered without comment and merely to pique your intellectual curiosity.
Over at Spinning Clio (two mentions in a week!), I’ve posted about the Post-Modernism of Russell Kirk. I know, I know…but if your interest is pique, please take look.
Believe it or not, there has never been a movie made about Calvin Coolidge. [Cue laughtrack.] OK, that is ENTIRELY believable. Over at Spinning Clio I post about a new documentary that looks at the presidency of “Cool Cal” and attempts to revise some of the impressions we have about him. In short, it is…
Apropos of nothing–er–except conservatism, here’s a conservative lesson for the day. Why, you may ask? Well, every once in a while we need to be reminded, don’t we? So, please open your primer to Russel Kirk’s Ten Conservative Principles. (Regarding the post title, maybe I should try to come up with Captain Kirk’s own list…or…
Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, offers a primer on American conservatism. The intro: The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its superior appreciation of the complexity and depth of moral and political life. But political debate in America today tells a different story. On a variety of issues…
Thomas Sowell: If no one has even one percent of the knowledge currently available, not counting the vast amounts of knowledge yet to be discovered, the imposition from the top of the notions favored by elites convinced of their own superior knowledge and virtue is a formula for disaster…what the political left, even in democratic…
I share Justin’s concern that some of what has gone on may not be “out of deliberate strategy” and instead may be for the sake of “the sheer self-gratifying joy of subversion and recognition.” It is this line between publicity-for-its-own-sake and polemic that is sometimes hard to toe. (Ann Coulter comes to mind). So, perhaps…
Inasmuch as it is difficult to discuss a document that is not readily available to the public, herewith is Ethan Wingfield’s letter of resignation as Chairman of the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island (printed with permission): To all, I write this evening to announce my resignation as Chairman of the College Republican Federation of…
