May 17, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Progressives & Conservatives: Is There Common Ground?

By Gleaves Whitney|2017-03-08T13:36:10-06:00May 17th, 2013|Categories: Conservatism, Gleaves Whitney, Liberalism, Political Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism|

Common Ground between Whom? A lot of people are skeptical about what the Hauenstein Center is trying to do. Seriously now: common ground between conservatives and progressives? Each camp has been telling me how much it can’t stand the other. In popular culture, conservatives regard progressives as arrogant, woolly-minded, and un-American; progressives see conservatives as [...]

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Harvey Mansfield

Harvey Mansfield In my last post, I wrote about Leo Strauss’ defense of liberal education as a possible antidote to the narrowness of specialization of knowledge and the moral aimlessness of positivist ideology. One way to teach liberal education is to have students read the great thinkers of one’s tradition. In his chapter [...]