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Education: Training, or Cultivating?

July 11, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary

Dr. David Safir, a pediatrician, believes that spanking your children can be an effective tool for parents. In To spank or not to spank, where do you draw the line?, Sari Zeidler examines the benefits and drawbacks of physical punishment. Dr. Safir insists that children need to learn that society has …

Conservatism in Three Dimensions

May 2, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary

As I get to the end of Patrick Allitt’s lectures on The Conservative Tradition, he summarizes the different strands of conservatism. While our political discussion these days seems to take place in a two-dimensional world, more or less conservative, more or less liberal, I’m struck at the three dimensional world of …

Towards a Taxonomy of Political Beliefs, cont.

April 14, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary

As I continue listening to the lecture series The Conservative Tradition1 by Professor Allitt, I’m struck by the varieties of political belief as history has unfolded, which he considers conservative. In the previous post, I mentioned Professor Allitt’s distinction of state’s rights conservatives, who believe in small, decentralized government, and stability, …

Towards A Taxonomy of Conservative Beliefs

April 8, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary

Having finished Thomas Pangle’s course on the Constitution1, I started Patrick N. Allitt’s course on The Conservative Tradition2. In an early lecture, he mentions the conservatism of the federalists, and several conservative features in the Constitution. When thinking about Professor Pangle’s course, I associated the Anti-Federalists with populist conservatives today (I would …

Conservatism, Competitive and Reactive

January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary

George Lakoff (Moral Politics) and Corey Robin (The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burkes to Sarah Palin) offer a similar take on the conservative mind. For Lakoff, one of the defining elements of conservatism is competition; without competition, there would be no conservatism. It is through competition that the individual …

Shakespeare and the Tax Code

October 28, 2011 | Filed under: Commentary

There is a review of the new film “Anonymous” in the newspaper. I haven’t seen the film, but as a former Literature major I am not unaware of the various theories surrounding the true authorship of Shakespeare’s work. In most cases the storyline is, “Shakespeare is a commoner and thus …

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