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  • Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power

    Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power0

    It’s always an occasion of note when Paul Krugman says a true thing. And it has happened. “Given the powers we grant to the president, who in some ways is almost like an elected dictator, giving the office to someone likely to abuse that power invites catastrophe.” Abused power is indeed potentially catastrophic. Perhaps there

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  • Paul Kengor’s ‘A Pope and a President’ is a Divine Read

    Paul Kengor’s ‘A Pope and a President’ is a Divine Read0

    Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, your politics will likely be confirmed by reading A Pope and the President.  And that’s too bad.  Whether you are of a religious bent or not, your take on matters of faith will likely remain what they were before you opened this book.  And that’s too bad

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  • Patriotism: Why So Many Intellectuals Can’t Understand It

    Patriotism: Why So Many Intellectuals Can’t Understand It0

    Sam Haselby says this “should be the end times” for American patriotism. Yet the opposite seems to be happening, and he can’t understand why. America has no national education system, he notes. No conscription. No government agency that enforces the red-white-and-blue rituals performed at schools and sporting events coast-to-coast. Nor does America have a territorial

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  • Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization

    Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization3

    Many years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants

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  • Patriotism Isn’t Fascism

    Patriotism Isn’t Fascism0

    Last week my friend John was chatting with a trainer at the gym, who complained that patrons were putting their trash into the wrong recycling bins. John, who keeps up with this sort of thing, explained to him that it probably made little difference since the United States only recycles a fraction of its plastic

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  • Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed

    Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed0

    Patrick Deneen’s thoughtful book poses a challenge to libertarians. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, has with great force identified a fundamental tendency of our times. Destruction of traditional attachments to family, local institutions, culture, and virtuous behavior isolates individuals and makes them dependent on an all-powerful government. In arguing in this

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