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Category Archives: Reagan
Tribute To Allan H. Meltzer
Ever since the death of Fredrick Hayek, Milton Friedman and Peter Drucker there remains only one person left capable of fulfilling the role those men carved out for a hardened intellectual, namely Allan H. Meltzer who currently resides at the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Economics, International Relations, Money, Peter Drucker, Politics, Reagan
Tagged Allan Meltzer, Classical Economics, Hayek, Reagan, Supply Side, Thatcher
Walter Russell Mead & The Flight of African American’s Out Of New York
Walter Russell Mead has recently written of the flight of tens of thousands of African Americans out of Michigan, Chicago and New York to seek better lives for themselves in the American South. Blacks are fleeing stagnant job growth, confiscatory … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Conservatism, Ethics, Morality, Politics, Reagan, Sociology, The Demise Of The Black Family
Tagged Big Government, Blight, Census, Confiscatory taxation, Growth, Taxation, Walter Russell Mead
Partisan Humanism, Ideology & The Limits Of Political Passion
Edmund Burke and Lord Acton were the first to meaningfully engage the eclipse of Christian transcendence that was the French Revolution. Many other writers throughout the West have done the same in articulating the humanism that embodied Soviet Marxism: Raymond … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Alex Tocqueville, Ethics, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Satan/Evil
Tagged Acton, Bourbon, Churchill, Dmitri Bystrolotov, Edmund Burke, Evil, Feast of Immortals, French Revolution, Humanism, Limits Political Passion, Markus Wolf, Marxian, Northwestern University Press, Political Passion, Purge, Raymond Aron, Romeo, Satanic Presence, Soviet, Stalin, Stasi, Tocqueville
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Weak Currency: Weakened Prosperity
A great friend of mine recently admonished a competitor who exclaimed that the Dow Jones was rising! His response was incisive: what does it matter, the currency is shot! His thinking was grounded in sound fiscal, macroeconomic policy that is … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Money, Reagan
Tagged Confiscatory taxation, Currencies, Entitlements, Money, Weak Dollar
The New Wiseman: Informed Critics Of Afpak Strategy
Decades ago Washington insiders always spoke reverently about the need for any President to have a ‘wise man’ continuously informing and constraining the President’s policy options: Roosevelt had Hopkins, Truman had Acheson, Kennedy had Macmillian. Today’s President either arrives into … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Islam, Near East, Politics, Reagan, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Tagged Afghanistan, Central Asia, COIN, Counterinsurgency, Fredrick Roberts, Marlowe, Pakistan, Petraeus, The Great Game, Wise men of Washington
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
George Orwell & Aldous Huxley Fathers of Doublespeak: A Clarion Call To Church & Artists
Both Orwell (real name Eric Blair) and Huxley left a substantial body of work that bore out the conviction that modern man was incapable of coping, resolving the demands of his time. Other writers, less artistic yet still formidable in … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Eric Voegelin, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sociology, solzhenitzen, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Andre Malraux, Churchill, Europe, Francios Mauriac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gaudium et Spes, Huxley, Ignatio Ellacuria, James Joyce, John Paul II, John XXIII, Orwell, Raymond Aron, Roosevelt, Samuel Beckett, Second Vatican Council, Solzhenitsyn, specificity of christian ethics, Truman, Vaclav Haval, WWII
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Lawrence Kaplan
“The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” … Continue reading
Posted in China, Conservatism, Constitution, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Money, Morality, Poets, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sex Abuse Crisis Church, Sexual Ethics, Shakespeare, Sociology, Terrorism
Tagged Monsters, Reason
The Principals Of Sound Money: Madison, Hamilton, Tocqueville vs. Marx, Engels & Lenin
This essay explores the relation between Madison, Hamilton, Tocqueville and the ‘Masters of Suspicion’, known as Marx, Engles and Lenin. How does political ideology either affirm or deny reality? How does a particular political economy, a governance either secure the … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Conservatism, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, International Relations, Money, Politics, Reagan
Tagged Austrian School Economics, Engels, Frekrick Hayek, Hamilton, Lenin, Ludwig von Mises, Madison, Marx, Masters of Suspicion, Reagan, Supply Side Economics, Tocqueville, Tyranny
Reagan’s Dragqueen
Sarah Palin’s display of her republican credentials has vibrant historical antecedents in Washington, Cincinatus, Dante and Machiavelli. All were stimulated by national elevation, two experienced public humiliation and withdrew to devise a strategy to gain traction against an enemy to … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, International Relations, Politics, Reagan, Sarah Palin
