In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Fred Bauer
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When Abraham Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863, he offered the previously regional holiday as a feast of national gratitude in counterpoint to the ongoing horrors of the Civil War. Celebrating the vast resources and opportunities of the United States, Lincoln declared that those boons “should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart…
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On the morning of October 28, 2024, a prankster announced the death of the distinguished political scientist Francis Fukuyama—only for Fukuyama himself to explain to the world that he was still quite alive. In a recent Financial Times column reflecting on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Fukuyama himself proclaims an ideological death. Trump’s win, he…
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In a weird way, sitting in a near-empty movie theater drove home the sheer scale of what Francis Ford Coppola aimed to accomplish in his new film Megalopolis. The acclaimed director spent decades trying to produce this film, with disruptions ranging from the terrorist attacks of September 11 to Coppola’s firing of much of the visual…
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Nourished in the seclusion of backroom negotiations, the long-rumored bipartisan Senate border bill soon wilted in the blazing sun of public attention. The border proposal had been intended to convince Republicans to vote for a bigger package that included military aid for Ukraine and Israel. Yet the measure was proclaimed dead within days of being…
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The status of the good is at the heart of today’s debates about “liberalism.” Both defenders and critics take for granted that liberalism somehow defers questions of the right way to live, both individually and collectively. While classical political philosophy (so the story goes) focused on arranging society according to the common good, liberal modernity…