journalist, grand historian and speechwriter from England (1928–2023)
Roger Scruton tackles that question near the end of the book Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage, which collects essays on liberty-related themes that originally appeared in The American Spectator.…
You know how I love these double super-secret code names for economic development projects. ‘Project Clear’ is the name Surry County commissioners came up with for an incentives package for…
If Amanda Vuke’s Shaftesbury Society presentation earlier this week spurred your interest in religious topics, you might enjoy Paul Johnson‘s latest book, Jesus: A Biography from a Believer. As the…
So writes historian Paul Johnson in this Forbes column. Standard Keynesian thinking for nearly 80 years has been that when the country is in recession or depression, the government needs…
Yesterday I mentioned Paul Johnson?s excellent 1988 book Intellectuals. Johnson writes chapter length biographies of the intellectuals whose ideas shaped the 19th and 20th centuries: Rousseau, Marx, Ibsen, Hemingway, Russell,…
Mitch, In the late 1980s, I heard Thomas Sowell speak at Northern Arizona University. He mentioned he was working on a book that described the influence of intellectuals on society…
I kept looking for the tags “editorial,” “opinion,” or, at the very least, “analysis,” above Robert Bell’s N&R front-pager on gas hitting $4 a gallon in the Triad. Whatever it…
Update 2: Locker Room’s Daren Bakst reports that the annexation committee will recommend a bill proposing a moratorium to the full House. Annexation growth numbers are here. The numbers are…
If you’re looking for a straightforward catalogue of the world’s greatest heroes, you won’t find it in Paul Johnson’s recent book, Heroes (Harper Collins, 2007). Johnson cites Caesar and Churchill…
Now compare the N&R’s fluff piece on Skybus with this story in —-I can’t believe I’m saying this —- the High Point Enterprise. The Enterprise took a look at the…
This article by British historian Paul Johnson first appeared in March, 2007, but is still well worth reading if you didn’t catch it at the time.
More grist for the mill. Some of you may be familiar with Paul Johnson’s book “Intellectuals.” He documents the hypocrisy of leading intellectuals: Rousseau, Marx, Tolstoy, Sartre, Brecht, etc. “This…