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Tag Archives: American Exceptionalism
Steven Bannon’s Tutorial on Jacksonian Rage
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
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Uncategorized
Tagged American Exceptionalism, Henry Nau, Internationalism
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Amerika: The No Growth Society
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
Posted in International Relations
Tagged American Exceptionalism, Angus Maddison, economic growth
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Team Obama & The Uses Of White Guilt
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
Posted in Identity Development, Politics, Sociology
Tagged American Exceptionalism, Shelby Steele, Team Obama, White Guilt
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Neal Stephenson: Natural Law & The Consequences Of Modernity
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
The Genius Of The American Founding
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
Perez Zagorin: Thomas Hobbes & The Father Of Statist Life
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
The Perils Of Specialization: Statecraft, Technology, Education & Personal Growth
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
The Causes Of State Terror: 1789, Russia, Rawanda, The Vatican & American Exceptionalism
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
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology
Tagged 1789 France, American Exceptionalism, Engels, Hegel, Marx, Marxism, Pol Pot, Protestant Reformation, Rawanda, Russia, Secularism, Stalin, State Terror, Utopian
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