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August 1, 2018|James Wolcott, Robert Novak, Tom Wolfe

Journalism and the Work Ethic

by Mark Judge|

View of the Washington Post building at night, Washington, D.C. (Nicole S. Glass/Shutterstock.com).
In the digital age, when anyone can call himself or herself a journalist, we need to choose better role models.

July 27, 2018|Aristotle, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth S. Amato, eudaimonia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime, Tom Wolfe, Walker Percy

The Truth about Happiness

by Jessica Hooten Wilson|

Edith Wharton, circa 1901 (alamy.com)
The master storytellers have much to teach us about our natures and about what makes us happy.

May 17, 2018|manliness, Stoicism, Tom Wolfe, virtu

A Return to Heroes: Tom Wolfe was the Stoic Writer America Needed

by Titus Techera|

Author Tom Wolfe at the Hay literary festival in Hay on Wye, Herefordshire UK June 7, 1999 (Andrew Fox / Alamy Stock Photo).
There are no Greek demigods among us, but Tom Wolfe gave us heroes—the men who dare deal with the crazy consequences of our modern freedom.

December 22, 2016|Charles Darwin, evolution, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe

From Cavemen to Tom Wolfe

by Joseph Bottum|

Author Tom Wolfe (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)

It’s not difficult to come up with a theory of language. Mine is vaguely Augustinian (if we ignore the scholars’ endless battles over what St. Augustine meant by signs and reference), and it looks like this: All language starts in pain. The first speech of humankind is the newborn’s howl of outrage.

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November 30, 2012|Claremont Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, European Central Bank, FDA, Federalism, Hettinga v. United States, NFIB v. Sebelius, Obamacare, Richard Reinsch, The Upside-Down Constitution, Tom Wolfe

Friday Roundup, Nov. 30

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Asking the hard questions at Econ Lib: Is FDA approval superfluous to the actual safety of drugs? The Sebelius decision throws a ticking time bomb of federalism (link no longer available) into the lap of Obamacare. The Claremont Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence challenges (link no longer available) Depression era milk regulations in Hettinga v. United States.  The accused has been charged with the unspeakable crime of trying to sell milk to Costco below the prices of its competitors. For shame! Of course, Law and Liberty's Michael Greve provides the full treatment of cartel regulation and the jettisoning of the original nationalist logic of commerce that…

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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