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- Education, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- April 15, 2025
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Violence hangs over the 2024 election. Well before the botched assassination of President Trump, half of the country already expected to see a civil war within the next few years. Riots have become commonplace—as have outbursts of the oldest form of hate. But in a sense, none of this is surprising. It is the natural
READ MOREOne of the curious things about political opinions is how often the same people line up on opposite sides of different issues. The issues themselves may have no intrinsic connection with each other. They may range from military spending to drug laws to monetary policy to education. Yet the same familiar faces can be found
READ MOREHe was one of those people who fit Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ definition of a great thinker with great impact on the world. The hallmark of such a thinker is not personal notoriety but the fact that ‘a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving
READ MOREMichael Oakeshott was one of the most important philosophers of the 1900s, but perhaps because he was an Englishman, his work is not very well known in America. That’s a shame. By tracing the deep roots of modern political thought, Oakeshott laid bare the dangers of rationalism—and predicted the divisive politics we see today. Oakeshott
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