American philosopher (1803–1882)
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Robert Wright devotes a Martin Center column to higher education in a post-COVID-19 world. The coronavirus, combined with the public and private reactions to it, has affected every aspect of…
The latest installment in the Martin Center’s “History of Higher Ed” series highlights Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 Harvard lecture, “The American Scholar.” In this distribution of functions the scholar is…
Gilbert Sewall documents for American Spectator readers the fight over California school textbooks and explicit references to LGBT figures in American history. In 2006, Sen. Sheila Kuehl of Santa Monica…
Perhaps the Ivory Tower would not prove so damaging to American culture if all college students were required to take classes with professors such as Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom.…
In today’s Freeman essay, Allen Mendenhall argues forcefully that Emerson must be regarded as a libertarian. Were he alive today, he certainly would have nothing good to say about our…
Jonah Goldberg agrees with those post-election observers who think Republicans need to refine their message — not their basic principles — in order to have a better chance of success…
Last week, I wrote an article entitled “The Sad History of Freshman Reading,” which detailed recent summer readings at NC schools. It turns out that summer reading hasn’t always had…
If you’re looking for a good biography of Ronald Reagan, skip John Patrick Diggins’ recent effort. Despite the dust jacket statement that Reagan “deserves to be regarded as one of…
If this article is anything like George Will’s JLF speech on Feb. 23rd, we have a real treat in store for us. A sample: “To Reagan, the idea of…
Daren, on the flip side of the issue, remember Emerson?s dictum that ?a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.? Not that hypocrisy is good, but obsessively avoiding hypocrisy…