Tag Archives: American Exceptionalism

Steven Bannon’s Tutorial on Jacksonian Rage

Posted on May 12, 2017 by William Holland

What are the limits to populism in a Constitutional Republic.  The answer is, we’re about to find out.  When Trump rode in on the heels of a Jacksonian moment, it took nearly three months to discern the limits of being … Continue reading →

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Amerika: The No Growth Society

Posted on March 7, 2014 by William Holland

What does ‘leading from behind’ embody? It basically turns American exceptionalism on its head.  According to this progressive thought, America isn’t a nation conceived as liberty in equality but a power that needs to be constrained or at least a … Continue reading →

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The Retreat Agenda: Brave New Disordered World

Posted on February 27, 2014 by William Holland

When Hobbes & Machiavelli wrote they both experienced the world as short, brutish and violent.  Something an American would only experience in a state of war, or as Hobbes would have it, a war of all against all. The Framers … Continue reading →

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Team Obama & The Uses Of White Guilt

Posted on September 8, 2011 by William Holland

Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto California, he remains the most significant intellectual on American race relations since Lincoln.  Period. His book titled ‘White Guilt’ exposes how the intellectual vacuity … Continue reading →

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Neal Stephenson: Natural Law & The Consequences Of Modernity

Posted on April 4, 2011 by William Holland

Neal Stephenson wrote “In the Beginning Was the Command Line” in 1999.  Its best to view his writings as a mixture of James Michener, Huxley and H.G. Wells.  Although committed to the craft of science fiction, he is not unfamiliar … Continue reading →

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The Genius Of The American Founding

Posted on October 19, 2010 by William Holland

How else to speak of the moral revolution that was and is the American Founding. Fidel Castrol, Pol Pot, Jospeh Stalin, Adolf Hitler and scores of other ‘revolutionaries’ all failed. Why? Unless we understand the measure that our Founders took … Continue reading →

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Perez Zagorin: Thomas Hobbes & The Father Of Statist Life

Posted on August 14, 2010 by William Holland

No other author possesses the firm elegant grasp of the violent ideas that rocked the time of Thomas Hobbes (author of Leviathan), a political tome giving foundation to Fascist and Totalitarian ideology within the 20th century; than Perez Zagorin. Perez … Continue reading →

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The Perils Of Specialization: Statecraft, Technology, Education & Personal Growth

Posted on July 17, 2010 by William Holland

If any writer, thinker prepared American readers to understand the perils of specialization it was Dr. Peter Drucker, a contemporary of the late great Nobel winner in economics Fredrick Hayek.  Hayek knew Drucker from his days at the Austrian School … Continue reading →

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The Causes Of State Terror: 1789, Russia, Rawanda, The Vatican & American Exceptionalism

Posted on June 23, 2010 by William Holland

The ‘Reign of Terror’ that culminated in the French Revolution (1789), the Russian ‘Red Terror’ of Lenin and Stalin, African genocide in Rawanda, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and legions of other rulers have embraced violence for political ends.  Where was … Continue reading →

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