Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” in Modern New York
Interview - “The change with After Virtue, however, is that in an important sense [MacIntyre] turns against modernity as a whole. He argues that the move to modernity involves the destruction of morality—that in modernity we no longer know what we’re talking about when we deploy moral language.” (8/24/2024)
Interview - “The change with After Virtue, however, is that in an important sense [MacIntyre] turns against modernity as a whole. He argues that the move to modernity involves the destruction of morality—that in modernity we no longer know what we’re talking about when we deploy moral language.” (8/24/2024)Former Congressman Jody Hice: “Sacred Trust” Interview - “Obviously elections are political in terms of who wins and loses, but the process should not be political.” (5/17/2024)
Interview - “Obviously elections are political in terms of who wins and loses, but the process should not be political.” (5/17/2024)Slavoj Žižek: “Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist”
Interview - “In all other religions, you have people who become atheists. Only in Christianity, God himself goes through this experience.” (4/25/2024)
Interview - “In all other religions, you have people who become atheists. Only in Christianity, God himself goes through this experience.” (4/25/2024)Lord Conrad Black: Insights from the Ancient World
Interview - “There is such a thing as progress. I am no Pollyanna, and human nature doesn’t change much, but there’s undoubtedly progress.” (4/14/2024)
Interview - “There is such a thing as progress. I am no Pollyanna, and human nature doesn’t change much, but there’s undoubtedly progress.” (4/14/2024)Grant Havers: The Conservative Tradition in Canada
Interview - “Yes, as you mentioned, one of the most interesting findings of Lament for a Nation, which came out in 1965—it’s Grant’s most famous book—is that in Grant’s view, there’s really no such thing as American conservatism.” (2/23/2024)
Interview - “Yes, as you mentioned, one of the most interesting findings of Lament for a Nation, which came out in 1965—it’s Grant’s most famous book—is that in Grant’s view, there’s really no such thing as American conservatism.” (2/23/2024)“Godmother of Consumer-Driven Healthcare”: An Interview with Regina Herzlinger
Interview - “For example, with a container of yogurt, I know its price, calories, calcium content, and vitamin content. But if I need a hip replacement, I have no data to judge the quality of the physician, hospital, or other sites where the surgery might be performed.” (2/6/2024)
Interview - “For example, with a container of yogurt, I know its price, calories, calcium content, and vitamin content. But if I need a hip replacement, I have no data to judge the quality of the physician, hospital, or other sites where the surgery might be performed.” (2/6/2024)Mihai Nadin: Disrupter of Science
Interview - “[My book seeks to] disrupt science in the sense that it gets us away from the myth that doing more physics and chemistry will be the answer to understanding the living and, in particular, the human being.” (2/3/2024)
Interview - “[My book seeks to] disrupt science in the sense that it gets us away from the myth that doing more physics and chemistry will be the answer to understanding the living and, in particular, the human being.” (2/3/2024)Daniel A. Cox: Taking the Pulse of Gen Z
Interview - “One of the really significant differences in terms of how young people are being raised today and their formative and teens years and previous generations is how slowly they’re reaching major milestones, such as getting married [and] owning a home, the sort of signs of adulthood…” (2/1/2024)
Interview - “One of the really significant differences in terms of how young people are being raised today and their formative and teens years and previous generations is how slowly they’re reaching major milestones, such as getting married [and] owning a home, the sort of signs of adulthood…” (2/1/2024)Slavoj Žižek: “Freedom: A Disease Without Cure”
Interview - “So you see why people are not satisfied: I don’t propose simple solutions. In my old age, I’m returning from Marx to Hegel.” (1/18/2024)
Interview - “So you see why people are not satisfied: I don’t propose simple solutions. In my old age, I’m returning from Marx to Hegel.” (1/18/2024)Richard Kemp: Israel’s Existential Campaign to Destroy Hamas
The Center - “Hamas wants to maximize the death of its civilian population. The purpose is to get the international community, the United Nations, the United States, other governments around the world, to condemn Israel, to vilify Israel, to delegitimize Israel, and undermine the Jewish state in that way.” (12/19/2023)
The Center - “Hamas wants to maximize the death of its civilian population. The purpose is to get the international community, the United Nations, the United States, other governments around the world, to condemn Israel, to vilify Israel, to delegitimize Israel, and undermine the Jewish state in that way.” (12/19/2023)Phyllis Chesler: Modern Feminism’s Failure to Condemn Hamas The Center - “The feminists have deserted Jewish women. And it wasn’t just Jewish women. There were Arab Muslim women, and there were Thai Buddhist women. No doubt many Christian women or some Christian women who were also raped, murdered, and kidnapped.” (12/13/2023)
The Center - “The feminists have deserted Jewish women. And it wasn’t just Jewish women. There were Arab Muslim women, and there were Thai Buddhist women. No doubt many Christian women or some Christian women who were also raped, murdered, and kidnapped.” (12/13/2023)Wessie du Toit: When a Society Decenters Leisure The Center - “Meaningful work is as important to life as leisure, I think. I just think that we’ve lost the balance.” (11/25/2023)
The Center - “Meaningful work is as important to life as leisure, I think. I just think that we’ve lost the balance.” (11/25/2023)Patrick Deneen: “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future”
The Right - “The so-called conservative movement of the 1980s was anything but conservative.” (11/3/2023)
The Right - “The so-called conservative movement of the 1980s was anything but conservative.” (11/3/2023)Dr. Cheryl Green: What’s Ailing Young Women The Center - “The most common precursor of gender dysphoria, though, seems to be intense social media use. The gender dysphoria more often seems to stem from that rather than from the home.” (10/26/2023)
The Center - “The most common precursor of gender dysphoria, though, seems to be intense social media use. The gender dysphoria more often seems to stem from that rather than from the home.” (10/26/2023)Samuel G. Freedman: What a Young Hubert Humphrey Can Teach Us The Left - “Humphrey’s insurgency at the convention basically lashed Truman to the mast of [Humphrey’s] own civil rights agenda. And desegregating the armed forces was arguably the single most important civil rights cause of that moment in time.” (9/16/2023)
The Left - “Humphrey’s insurgency at the convention basically lashed Truman to the mast of [Humphrey’s] own civil rights agenda. And desegregating the armed forces was arguably the single most important civil rights cause of that moment in time.” (9/16/2023)Matt Johnson: “How Hitchens Can Save the Left” The Left - “There really hasn’t been anybody like him since he passed…This is why there are these long compilations of ‘Hitchslaps’ on YouTube. It’s why most of the tributes to him focus on his rhetorical prowess—and just his brilliance on the debate stage.” (9/14/2023)
The Left - “There really hasn’t been anybody like him since he passed…This is why there are these long compilations of ‘Hitchslaps’ on YouTube. It’s why most of the tributes to him focus on his rhetorical prowess—and just his brilliance on the debate stage.” (9/14/2023)