Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History

By |2022-08-01T08:47:52-05:00April 30th, 2012|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Politics|

Certainly, as John Willson and others have argued throughout their professional careers, one of the greatest problems of western civilization has been its attempt to balance universal truths (not necessarily limited to the transcendent and divine truths, but timeless and universal nonetheless) with particular, cultural expressions of those truths. Throughout the history of our civilization, [...]

The Equality Racket

By |2017-08-03T13:43:33-05:00April 30th, 2012|Categories: Economics, Equality, Pat Buchanan, Political Economy, Politics, Republicanism, Thomas Jefferson|

Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is wide and growing wider. This, we are told, is intolerable. This is a deformation of American democracy that must be corrected through remedial government action. What action? The rich must [...]

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