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3 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Joseph Wood |Daniel Mahoney |Theodore Dalrymple |Graham McAleer
The contemporary French political philosopher Pierre Manent is widely acknowledged as a thinker of the first rank, one whose approach to the study of human affairs renews political philosophy’s original ambition to provide a truly “architectonic” or comprehensive grasp of the human world. Manent’s concerns are the age-old ones of the city and the soul.
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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer
In The New York Times, Oren Cass compared “Liberation Day” to WWII’s D-Day. The analogy conjures powerful imagery of brave, selfless Americans laying down their lives in a fight of good versus evil. Like D-Day, “Liberation Day” has caused suffering and chaos, as even a cursory look at the stock market, bond market, and world headlines will confirm. But to what end? And with the 90-day pause announced, what should the future look like?
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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Ethan Yang |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer
On March 18, 2025, President Trump dismissed the two remaining Democrat Commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. This represented a shattering of both tradition and legal precedent. If you asked any Republican member of the FTC what he or she thinks about presidential control over independent agencies, you would likely get the same answer that Mark Meador provided at his confirmation hearing.
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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Daniel Mahoney |Theodore Dalrymple |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer
Daniel Mahoney’s book is an incisive analysis of ideological thinking and its lasting effects on the West. When, in 1969, I travelled through Afghanistan (this was in the days of good King Zahir Shah, good certainly by comparison with all who came after him), it never occurred to me, callow as I was, that the country might be transformed any time soon into, say, a Scandinavian-style social democracy.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Bruno Macaes |Graham McAleer |Michael Lucchese |Joseph Holmes
Techno-futurists commonly believe that a totally human-made future will advance individual liberty. Bruno Maçães is doubtful, arguing in World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics that the future will more likely see us living inside a metaverse crafted by one of the superpowers.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Russell Shorto |John O. McGinnis |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer
The most successful city in the world is named after Britain’s most abject failure as a monarch. By the time he was overthrown after three short years on the throne, James II, previously the Duke of York, was a symbol of intolerance, trying to impose Roman Catholicism by decree against the popular wishes of a largely Protestant nation.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Hans Eicholz |Richard Alan Ryerson |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer
In his bracing account of the reasons for the clash of American and British forces at Lexington and Concord, Richard Ryerson has touched on several of the most vital themes of both British and American constitutional history, running from Magna Carta (1215) to the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) to the American Revolution (1776).
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
nuevarevista.net | Graham McAleer
Tiempo de lectura: 9 min. Graham McAleer es miembro del comité de ética judicial del estado de Maryland. Profesor de Filosofía en Loyola University Maryland. Colaborador del medio digital Liberty & Law. Recientemente publicó el libro Tolkien, Philosopher of War (CUA Press, 2024). Graham McAleer analiza el libro Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, en el que el filósofo canadiense Charles Taylor aborda la desconexión con la naturaleza que comenzó con la Ilustración.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |James Hankins |David Goldman |Graham McAleer
In 2014, HBO launched the first season of True Detective, its biggest debut, an eight-episode story created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, watched by almost 12 million people. It’s not hard to explain the success, but it’s a rare thing these days—romanticism. True Detective is a story for the end of the American mid-century, combining all the mysteries that scared people, from serial killers to conspiracies.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Auguste Meyrat |James Hankins |David Goldman |Graham McAleer
October 18, 2024 What’s killing Disney and Hollywood in general is the rampant immaturity and laziness of its creative workers. As the old saying goes, “politics is downstream of culture.” Unfortunately, this tends to be forgotten in election years, when this observation is even more applicable. If conservatives want to understand why progressives think and vote the way they do, they need only look at their media which influences them in profound ways.
