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 …
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 …
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