Last week I mentioned we are at a historic crossroads. Will we bring the proven ideas of the past forward in our lives, or will we be primarily engaged with the ideas in popular circulation today? Every serious soul should be asking this question, because today’s and tomorrow’s problems won’t be solved [...]
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You haven’t heard much from me this year. Not yet anyway. Recently I have had the pleasure of working on a writing project that I’ll tell you about later. I have also had the pleasure of reading and reflecting more of late. This has brought focus to what I want [...]
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Posted in General on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Suzanne Fields recently dissected the short shrift that top-tier academic institutions are now giving to their ostensible missions of higher education:
The New Criterion, a journal trying to plant the “the groves of ignorance” on firmer soil, looks to the book, “The Closing of the American Mind,” by the late Allan Bloom for his cogent critique [...]
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Posted in General on January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Victor Davis Hanson on Hillary Clinton & the New Hampshire Primary, available on National Review Online:
The campaign talking heads and opinion makers this season have been lousy, about the worst in memory — especially the “she’s won, she’s lost, she’s won…” feeding frenzy, and then writing the silly “end of the Clinton era” [...]
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Posted in Election, Terrorism, culture on January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Bret Stephens writes today: “There is great virtue in the American way, which expects CEOs to perform on a quarterly basis, presidents and Congresses to reinvent politics in 100 days, generals to wipe out opponents in 100 hours without taking significant casualties, doctors to save life and limb every time, search engines to yield a [...]
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