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Category Archives: Education
Theodore Forstmann: The Last Great American Financier
American financiers are unloved these days, but with the death of Theodore Forstmann on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at the young age of 71 much is to be remembered. Theodore Forstmann made his financial mark in the early 1980′s as … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Elias Canetti, Money
Tagged 1980's money, American Financier, LBO, Leverage Buyout, Theodore Forstmann
Aristotle, Plato: Grand Theft Auto
The last week of June 2011 witnessed the American Supreme Court hear arguments from Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants. This was a case involving whether a State or for that matter any political authority, can regulate video games. The majority opinion … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Ethics, Identity Development, Morality
Tagged Aristotle, Family raising children for liberty, First Amendment, Grand Theft Auto, Locke, Plato, Socrates
Londistan
I thought Melanie Phillips, the author of ‘Londistan’ has written a most engaging article summarizing the main cultural, philosophical and policy errors that permitted London to remain hostage to looters. ”How the Liberals Ruined London” is George Orwell in drag! … Continue reading
The Moral Vision That Permeates Success
John Garvey is the President of Catholic University in Washington D.C. Recently he revealed a bit of moral wisdom and in so doing confirmed the moral Tradition beginning with the Pre-Socratics through contemporary ethical theory. Garvey wrote that he firmly … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ethics, Peter Drucker
Tagged adage, Catholic University, John Garvey, Moral Vision, motivational speaker, new age movement, peter drucker
Civilization
John Armstrong is a resident philosopher at Melbourne Business School in Australia, he has written an ambitious book (‘In Search Of Civilization’) that sets out to restore the confidence once reposed in the term ‘Civilization’. If ever Matthew Arnold had a … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Education, John Paul II, Literature, Philosophy, Poets, Politics
Tagged Civilization, Islamofascism, John Armstrong, Matthew Arnold
The Social Crisis of the Working Class
Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington remains the single most significant sociologist since the passing of Seymour Martin Lipset. His latest is titled ‘The State of White America’. This is a startling account of reversal of America’s … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Feminization Of Men, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Marriage Preparation, Morality, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Sexual Ethics, Sociology, The Demise Of The Black Family, Theology
Tagged alex tocqueville, Charles Murray, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Francis Grund, Judeo Christian Morality, marriage, Morality, Sexual Ethics, social capital, social crisis of working class, State of White America, unwanted pregnancy, upper middle class, Working class
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Peter Berkowitz & The Failure of American Higher Education
Peter Berkowitz is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he has written an opinion article for the Wall St. Journal expounding how Political Science departments throughout American Universities have abdicated in their responsibilities to form men … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged American Higher Education Failure, Peter Berkowitz
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Mamuel Ayau: Champion Of Liberty
Very few people ever get to see their most ardent desires realized. Manuel Ayau was fortunate to see most. Laid to rest in a Greek Orthodox Monastery that now houses his family crypt, this little known man is the strength … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Education, International Relations, Money, Uncategorized
Tagged Guatemala, Liberty, Manuel Ayau, UFM
How To Recognize The Purpose Of Education
William Master Cory the 19th century Master of Eton surmised the purpose of education when he wrote: ”Education is not so much a process whereby one acquires knowledge as it is a process of making mental efforts under criticism. A … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ethics, Identity Development
Tagged Master Cory of Eton, Purpose of Eduation
Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz: Marxian Shylocks & The Political Incubus Of Failure
The cherished yet divided life of diasporic Jews in America exemplified in Kissenger, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz, Einstein and hosts of other brilliant minds relieved from the tyranny of Fascism in Europe was on full … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Constitution, Education, International Relations, Israel, Journalism, Morality, Politics, Reagan, Uncategorized
Tagged Burke, Chambers, Diaspora Jews, Dostoyevsky, Heschel, Irving Berlin, Irving Kristol, Kissenger, Liberty, Marxism, Norman Podhoretz, Russia, Solzhenitsyn, Strauss, Tocqueville
