When Libertarians get lost. I very much admired Reasonette Stephanie Slade’s recent take on the “postmodern right”, J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood, which, like the postmodern left, believes that “power” should be pursued and exercised without regard to any supposed “rules” or “laws” of morality or justice, which are merely hypocritical constructs that…
Tag: Russell Kirk
“The Conservative Mind” turns sixty! (Sound of one hand clapping)
Actually, the sound of no hands clapping. From the perspective sheer scholarly effort, Russell Kirk’s 500-page tome, surveying Anglo-American conservative thought from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot, is an impressive work, examining dozens of both illustrious and obscure thinkers and arranging them in a coherent historical framework that shows considerable learning as well.1 So…