Desperately Seeking Consistency
The Center - “And, as Michael Lind pointed out in Tablet, Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill was not the only Capitol Hill taken over by extremists thanks to a lax police presence—witness ultra-progressive Seattle.” 1/15/2021
The Center - “And, as Michael Lind pointed out in Tablet, Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill was not the only Capitol Hill taken over by extremists thanks to a lax police presence—witness ultra-progressive Seattle.” 1/15/2021Transgender Rites: How Trans Activism Manipulates Public Opinion The Center - “The notion that gender identity is a matter of self-identification, separate from biological sex, not only flies in the face of science but also leads to circular reasoning.” 1/15/2021
The Center - “The notion that gender identity is a matter of self-identification, separate from biological sex, not only flies in the face of science but also leads to circular reasoning.” 1/15/2021Our First Year without Roger Scruton The Left - “At his best, Scruton was a panoramic thinker of formidable intellect who puts to shame many of the lesser polemicists who have followed in his giant footsteps.” 1/14/2021
The Left - “At his best, Scruton was a panoramic thinker of formidable intellect who puts to shame many of the lesser polemicists who have followed in his giant footsteps.” 1/14/2021What Ails Us? The Center - “The loss of faith in America, its promises, and its constitutional and democratic ideals augurs not only American decline, but American collapse.” 1/12/2021
The Center - “The loss of faith in America, its promises, and its constitutional and democratic ideals augurs not only American decline, but American collapse.” 1/12/2021Ludwig Wittgenstein: a Post-Modern Philosopher? The Left - “Struck by this realization, Wittgenstein insisted that the best thing now was simply to stop doing philosophy and to try and find in life what could not be said with certainty.” 1/10/2021
The Left - “Struck by this realization, Wittgenstein insisted that the best thing now was simply to stop doing philosophy and to try and find in life what could not be said with certainty.” 1/10/2021The Historic Unifying Potential of the U.S. Constitution The Center - “Professor McConnell’s extensive study of the substance and scope of presidential power under the Constitution has convinced me that the unifying capacity of the Constitution could perhaps be revived.” 1/6/2021
The Center - “Professor McConnell’s extensive study of the substance and scope of presidential power under the Constitution has convinced me that the unifying capacity of the Constitution could perhaps be revived.” 1/6/2021Book Announcement: “The Emergence of Post-Modernity” The Left - “This is one of the reasons for the remarkable loneliness and alienation from others many have detected in the post-modern landscape.” 1/5/2021
The Left - “This is one of the reasons for the remarkable loneliness and alienation from others many have detected in the post-modern landscape.” 1/5/2021From Pornography to Agriculture: Challenging Hierarchy The Left - “At the core of this analysis is a claim that, at first glance, may seem to be a stretch: The erosion of human dignity in our broken world starts with the erosion of the planet’s soils.” 1/4/2021
The Left - “At the core of this analysis is a claim that, at first glance, may seem to be a stretch: The erosion of human dignity in our broken world starts with the erosion of the planet’s soils.” 1/4/2021Yoram Hazony’s “NatConTalk”: Enlarging the Conservative Conversation The Right - “NatConTalk is a recent entrant into the conservative conversation, or what remains of such under the hegemony of social media, our contemporary digital coliseum.” 1/3/2021
The Right - “NatConTalk is a recent entrant into the conservative conversation, or what remains of such under the hegemony of social media, our contemporary digital coliseum.” 1/3/2021Fitter and Happier? Work after the Coronavirus The Left - “Of all changes that have already been made to mitigate the threat of the deadly virus, the way we work has arguably undergone the biggest transformation.” 1/1/2021
The Left - “Of all changes that have already been made to mitigate the threat of the deadly virus, the way we work has arguably undergone the biggest transformation.” 1/1/2021Editor’s Choice: the Best Interviews of 2020 The Center - As has become something of a tradition each year at Merion West, here are our editor’s choices for his favorite interviews of this past year. 12/31/2020
The Center - As has become something of a tradition each year at Merion West, here are our editor’s choices for his favorite interviews of this past year. 12/31/2020Walter Lippmann and the Dilemma of Democracy The Center - “In his 1922 book, Public Opinion, Lippmann notes that in a representative democracy, members of the public are expected to form opinions regarding public affairs with which they have no direct contact.” 12/29/2020
The Center - “In his 1922 book, Public Opinion, Lippmann notes that in a representative democracy, members of the public are expected to form opinions regarding public affairs with which they have no direct contact.” 12/29/2020Editor’s Choice: the Best Articles of 2020 The Center - “As is tradition at Merion West, here are our editor’s choices for his favorite Merion West articles of this past year.” 12/26/2020
The Center - “As is tradition at Merion West, here are our editor’s choices for his favorite Merion West articles of this past year.” 12/26/2020An Experiment in (Lefty) Roleplaying? The Left - “Sadly, for past the 40 years, this yearning for an impossible yet fantastical other is one that has become increasingly shared by those on the Left.” 12/21/2020
The Left - “Sadly, for past the 40 years, this yearning for an impossible yet fantastical other is one that has become increasingly shared by those on the Left.” 12/21/2020An Enchanted Christmas with John Wesley The Center - “Wesley’s hymns remind us of all that is good in the world and all that is true about the human condition.” 12/20/2020
The Center - “Wesley’s hymns remind us of all that is good in the world and all that is true about the human condition.” 12/20/2020Kristof and WuDunn’s “Tightrope”: an Essential Book The Center - “Whether one agrees with none, some, or all of their policy prescriptions, Tightrope approaches the status of a must-read.“ 12/19/2020
The Center - “Whether one agrees with none, some, or all of their policy prescriptions, Tightrope approaches the status of a must-read.“ 12/19/2020