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Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
A promising new title from U of Penn with several references to Aristotle, Hume, Oakeshott, Hayek, Aron, Berlin and more besides. The business of a government [is] not to inflame passion and give it new objects to feed upon, but to inject into the activities of already too passionate men an ingredient of moderation. — Michael Oakeshott…
Liberalizing Liberalism
I hesitate to use the word “intellectual” because those that comprise the list below (a) don’t conform to the usual “professional” thinker profile and (b) derivatively, wouldn’t want to be tarnished by this now cheapened label (i.e. The Intellectual Yet Idiot). The names listed below are insightful and most are very funny and entertaining. These people are distinguished first…
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
Born on this day in 1767 He loved liberty as other men love power benjamin constantfree speechKantLiberalismNapPolitical philosophyregressive left
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
Here is a review by the excellent Gene Callahan of Pierre Manent’s book Situation de la France. (I’d put money on some getting their knickers in a twist about the cover) Gene CallahanislamLiberalismmulticulturalismphilosophy of social sciencePierre ManentPolitical philosophyregressive leftsocial epistemology
How Brexit shattered progressives’ dearest illusions
a quasi-eschatological faith in historical progress Well put Damon! Here is one of the more insightful, philosophically literate and least hysterical or pompous analyses. On this topic I have written the following in a forthcoming paper. Epistemic humility is not seen as a cultural virtue: it is the zeitgeist of the modern age that we exist…
The left’s version of the Tea Party
Rubin’s show has become one of the leading venues for discussing what he sees as the left’s betrayal of true liberalism . . . “You can’t stay you’re for gay rights but then be OK when certain people throw gays off roofs in the name of religion,” Rubin said. “All religions are a set of ideas.…
