The conventional wisdom on the political right is that university is now little more than leftist catachesis reliably producing leftist graduates. That left-leaning faculty dominate the American university cannot be… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part V →
Glenn Greenwald rightly says that the “monopolistic” and “anticompetitive entities” of Big Tech have “engage[d] in anti-trust illegalities to destroy rising competitors” such as Parler, whose “destruction preserves the unchallengeable… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part IV →
In April, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation facilitating the removal of Confederate monuments, nattering the while: “These monuments tell a particular version of history that doesn’t include everyone. In… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VI →
I read someplace, years ago, that the object of science is, laboriously and at great expense, to confirm the commonplace. Here’s my favorite illustration: Shakespeare gave us (perhaps transmitting Plato)… Read more The Kindness of Prejudice →
I rescued this juvenile chipmunk from a neighbor’s cat. He seemed to be in shock, so I took him inside and gave him some diced apple and maple spinners. After… Read more A Mother’s Fierce Love →
We have been studying why liberty must be more than an idea or speech. Part I considered how ideas are inflected or corrupted by incompatible habits; a bureaucrat, for example,… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part III →
Culture—understood as something not only thought, but enacted and embodied—shapes our articulation of values. Liberty, I have suggested, wears a different aspect under the present centralized bureaucracy than it did… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part II →
The Declaration of Independence tells us that government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed” who lay “its foundation on such principles and organiz[e] its powers in… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part I →