As I continue listening to the lecture series The Conservative Tradition1 by Professor Allitt, I’m struck by the varieties of political belief as history has unfolded, which he considers conservative. In the previous post, I mentioned Professor Allitt’s distinction of state’s rights conservatives, who believe in small, decentralized government, and stability, …
Having finished Thomas Pangle’s course on the Constitution1, I started Patrick N. Allitt’s course on The Conservative Tradition2. In an early lecture, he mentions the conservatism of the federalists, and several conservative features in the Constitution. When thinking about Professor Pangle’s course, I associated the Anti-Federalists with populist conservatives today (I would …
In the context of having just finished Thomas Pangle’s course on the Constitution, two columns in the New York Times caught my attention. One, Broccoli Mandates and the Commerce Clause from James B. Steward in Business Day, commenting on the commerce clause and recent argument regarding the health care reform issue in the …
I have just finished the last of 12 lectures in Thomas Pangle’s course on the Constitution. There are a couple of points that I find particularly interesting, one regarding the independence of the judiciary, the other the Federalist reluctance to have a Bill of Rights. In listening to Professor Pangle on …
In Tom Clancy’s novel Debt of Honor, after a terrorist attack on the Capitol during a State of the Union address kills the President and most members of Congress, the United States of America gets a do-over. Newly sworn-in President Jack Ryan calls for new elections to Congress and says something …
Continuing with Thomas Pangle’s course on the Constitution, I am struck by how modern populist conservatives, those with affinities with the Tea Party, for instance, seem to have a lot in common with the more democratic republicanism of the Anti-Federalists as Professor Pangle describes them; but also with the visions …
I’ve been continuing my journey through Thomas Pangle’s course Great Debates: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution. The most recent lectures concentrated on the Anti-Federalist arguments in opposition to the Constitution and the ideas which went into it. I’m hearing clear echos of their ideas and beliefs in elements of …
When I was contemplating the political mind, I imagined that you could devise a test that had nothing to do with politics and economics, and on the basis of the answers have a fairly good idea what the politics of the test-taker were. Turns out, of course, that many others …
I’ve been listening to Thomas Pangle’s course Great Debates: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution, part of the Great Courses at the Teaching Company. I had the great privilege, as an impressionable freshman, of taking Professor Pangle’s course on the History of Political Philosophy, studying Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli, among …
Justin Green writes about “what it means to be a conservative in today’s society,” in Current Radical GOP Rhetoric Contradicts True Values of Conservatism, at the Daily Nebraskan. He quotes conservative scholar Russell Kirk in claiming that conservatism is the fear of hasty change, “Hasty innovation may be a devouring conflagration.” …
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