Aesthetic Denialism and the Rise of Acadumbia: Yale, Bloom, English and How...
The Awakening of a Passion In the early 1990s, when I was in high school, I fell in love with literature and decided I wanted more. I attended a middle…View Post
View ArticlePolitics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views
Percy Bysshe Shelley proclaimed poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Today, that distinction belongs to Twitter mobs. Dispensing mob justice in brief and brutal 280-character decrees,...
View ArticleHow the Collectivist Right Won the Battle of Ideas
Left-wing critics of Trump and of the worldwide resurgence of the populist right have been throwing the word fascist around liberally in recent years. But many people have missed the…View Post
View ArticleIn Defence of Civility
Few states are ruined by any Defect in their Institution, but generally by the Corruption of Manners; against which, the best Institution is no long Security, and without which, a…View Post
View ArticleWant to End Homeschooling? Fight Ideological Indoctrination in Public Schools
Photo by Jessica Lewis In a recent interview and article, Elizabeth Bartholet recommends a presumptive ban on homeschooling because its practitioners are disproportionately conservative Christians,...
View ArticleWhy More Democracy Is the Last Thing We Need
The masses are respectable hands at fighting, but miserable hands at judging.—G. W. F. Hegel misquoting Goethe Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There…...
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