Titus Techera

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Political Control Comes For the FTC – Ethan Yang

1 week 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.
Diagnosing the Ideological Mind – Theodore Dalrymple

1 week 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.
The Dutch Roots of American Liberty – John O. McGinnis

2 weeks 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.
That “Ancient Republican Spirit” – Hans Eicholz

2 weeks 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).
In the Rubble of Totalitarianism – Law & Liberty - Daniel J. Mahoney

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Daniel Mahoney |James Patterson |Titus Techera

with Daniel J. Mahoney, hosted by James M. Patterson What Solzhenitsyn called “the ideological lie” was not limited to a single country, government, or movement. And it did not, unfortunately, die off in 1989.
C. S. Lewis and Progressive Pathology

2 weeks ago | anglican.ink | Titus Techera

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth about the spiritual troubles of two hundred years back. Of course, things seem just as catastrophic today as they did in 1802. After the English people voted for Brexit, the elites of England seem to have declared war on the country’s culture and liberties.
C. S. Lewis and Progressive Pathology – Titus Techera

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Titus Techera

“Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth about the spiritual troubles of two hundred years back. Of course, things seem just as catastrophic today as they did in 1802. After the English people voted for Brexit, the elites of England seem to have declared war on the country’s culture and liberties.
Religion & Liberty Online - Promoting free societies characterized by liberty & religious principles

4 weeks ago | rlo.acton.org | Titus Techera

One of the topics of the times is work-life balance. Should you work all the time, like Elon Musk? Should you embrace the workless life of social media influencers? To be middle class is a mix of the two. One has to work, to earn independence (and property), and also to mind one’s life, to make good use of that independence. It’s to be neither poor nor rich, but to be somehow both.
The Pursuit of Ignorance? – Law & Liberty - Mark Lilla

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Mark Lilla |James Patterson |Titus Techera |Asheesh Agarwal

with Mark Lilla, hosted by James M. Patterson The drive to pursue wisdom is engrained in every human being, right? So many have believed. But in his new book, Ignorance and Bliss, Mark Lilla argues that a certain “will to ignorance” is also part of the human experience. Like Plato’s Thrasymachus, many in the modern world want to throw up their hands in resignation rather than commit themselves to the pursuit of truth.
Recovering Liberty’s Philosopher

1 month ago | acton.org | Titus Techera

American life is now riven by an unprecedented kind of political conflict that we experience everywhere, not just in elections but also in ordinary life. This political conflict is partisan, but it goes beyond political parties and reaches into the realm of ideas. It is also comprehensive in that it swallows up history. Everything we might call America seems therefore to be a battleground. In this sense, we must call our situation a crisis.