In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Oliver Traldi
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Many writers level the following challenge at liberalism: it must either betray itself or fail to defend itself. Remain tolerant, and it will fall to the intolerant; become intolerant, and it will cease to be liberalism. Remain neutral, and it will fall to the militant; become militant, and it will cease to be liberalism. Critics…
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The philosopher John Searle passed away a few weeks ago. For years he was considered one of the leading lights of American philosophy, especially during the period when the subfield called philosophy of mind was at its peak of prominence and prestige. Searle also made signal contributions in the philosophy of language and in social…
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Through a decade of political innovations, shifting alliances, and emerging coalitions within American conservatism, few stances have remained as consistent as the right’s antipathy to the censoriousness and ideological uniformity of higher education. At the heart of that stance is what seems to me to be a characteristic fusionist mantra: an amalgamation of Aristotelian instincts…
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The second film by writer and director Whit Stillman, the male Jane Austen of the nineteen-nineties, is Barcelona. It turned thirty this July. Much like Austen, Stillman is a gentle ironist most loved, and I suspect much misunderstood, by the kind of people at whom he is most likely to poke fun. The sort of…