Jun 29, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Behind the Crack-up of the Right

In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America? Straussians, writes Gottfried, “wish to present the construction of government as an open-ended rationalist process. All children of the [...]

The New Classical Education

By Peter Leithart|2015-04-29T07:45:15-05:00June 29th, 2012|Categories: Classical Education, Classical Learning, Liberal Learning, Michael Oakeshott|Tags: 1IR|

In September 1974, the English philosopher Michael Oakeshott delivered the Abbott Memorial Lecture at Colorado College. Entitled “A Place for Learning,” Oakeshott’s lecture attacked the dominant model of education, a model predicated on the theories of the American educationist John Dewey. Learning, Oakeshott observed, should take place under “conditions of direction and restraint designed to [...]