The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splen...
Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage in their means but through the changed pattern in the distribut...
"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
[John C.] Calhoun was a minority spokesman in a democracy, a particularist in an age of nationalism, a slaveholder in an age of advancing liberties, and an agrarian in a furiously capitalistic country...
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....
Get action, do things; be sane, he once raved, don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.
There seems to be such a thing as the generically prejudiced mind. Studies
Purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The
The deeper historical sources of the Great Inquisition are best revealed by the other enthusiasms of its devotees: hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt, implacable opposition to New Deal reforms, desire to...
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result—rut...
As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has const...
[Herbert] Hoover, had he been challenged with the overpowering implausibility of his notion that economic life is a race that is won by the ablest runner, would have had a ready answer from his own bi...
Today, partly because many conservative schools have borrowed discriminatingly from progressive innovations, we may easily forget how dismal and self-satisfied the older conservative pedagogy often wa...