Matthew Stewart writes for the Martin Center about an effort to counteract a disturbing trend in higher education. Alan Jacobs’ new book, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide…
Paul Johnson examines the dangers of political correctness in his latest Forbes column. THE MENTAL INFECTION known as “political correctness” is one of the most dangerous intellectual afflictions ever to…
Michael Barone reviews in his latest column a book that examines the negative impact of a liberalism informed by snobbery. The novels of Sinclair Lewis, the journalism of H. L.…
Joe Bast is the founding president of the Heartland Institute in Chicago and one of the founders of the State Policy Network. I have known him since the late 1980s,…
One item near the top of the list has to be discussion of the positive benefits of Western civilization. The Pope Center’s Jane Shaw explained some reasons for the omission…
Well, now that I’ve got some time, George, I’ll play along, too: 1. One book that changed my life: The Ultimate Resource 2, by Julian Simon. It made tangible the…
Still my favorite title of a Richard Weaver book and relevant to the power of think tanks in America. The Economist this past week noted the consequential ideas of Harvey…
Jonah Goldberg has a list of books on modern liberalism/progressivism at National Review. I haven’t read any of them, so I have to take his word that they’re worthwhile. One…
There is a fascinating passage in historian David Hackett Fischer’s recent book Liberty and Freedom that discusses John Locke. In particular, Fischer discusses the prevalence of a certain kind of…
To those suggestions, I’d like to add my own pet topics: the Anglo-Saxons (encompassing both the mythology and reality of the Angles), modern romance languages, 19th century warfare and classical…