In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Robert Bellafiore
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It’s not all in your head; they really are out to get you. This is the message of director Ari Aster’s films: Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid, and now the horror-comedy-Western, Eddington. Each explores the premonition that forces beyond our imagination, outside the frame, have a wicked plan that is slowly coming to fruition—and you’re…
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Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $30.00 Abundance, the much-anticipated manifesto from the New York Times’s Ezra Klein and The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, is “dedicated to a simple idea: to have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need.” Beginning with a vision…
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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, by Christine Rosen. W.W. Norton & Company, 272 pages, $29.99 In his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts a conversation with his subject about one philosopher’s “ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal.” It’s…
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With the tapping of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate, it seems that the Republican Party has fully shed its old skin and revealed its new nature as the party of an altogether different, “national” conservatism. His selection follows the recent National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC, which offered further evidence of conservatives’ sense that the movement has broken…
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Joseph Horowitz, The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2024). At a 1963 ceremony at Amherst College honoring the recently passed Robert Frost, President Kennedy expanded his artistic purview beyond Camelot to offer a thesis on the nature of creative action. “If art is to…