In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Shiv Parihar
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Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism, by Alan S. Kahan (Princeton University Press, 528 pp., $29.95) Neither the coterie of right-wing intellectuals who dub themselves postliberals nor many of the defenders of the liberal tradition in its 21st century hour of need can agree on what, exactly, liberalism is. Many so-called postliberals understand liberalism…
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, by Richard Bell (Penguin Random House, 416 pp., $35.00) Ralph Waldo Emerson, dean of the American transcendentalist poets, famously called the first shot of the American Revolution the “shot heard round the world” in his hymn for the Battle of Concord. The phrase has echoed through…
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Nathan Hitchen’s most recent piece speaks of America as the heir to the British Empire. Hitchen gives great depth in a work that dispels common myths about the relationship between the founding and monarchy. To even better understand the vision of our republic held by its framers, one may look beyond the British politics of the…