Tom knew the best people, threw the best parties, and was the best of friends. The post The Tom Stoppard I Knew appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The Tom Stoppard I Knew Tom knew the best people, threw the best parties, and was the best of friends. UK Special Coverage Photo by Neil Libbert/Getty Images I grew up in a Buckinghamshire village called Iver, living for 18 years in a Queen Anne house called Copthall. In the early 1970s, when I was about 10, a glamorous couple moved to the other end of the village: Tom and Miriam Stoppard. Tom soon became a close friend of my father, the historian and journalist Paul Johnson. I suppose there weren’t many other successful writers living in the village, and convenience is a powerful factor…Open
Jason Stanley left Yale declaring America a budding fascist dictatorship. Now he is in Berlin, applying the same unfalsifiable method to German politics—and his credibility […] Source
By Bill Ponton They are destroying functioning systems so that they can present themselves as the solution to all of the problems they themselves have caused.
Known as the "Conscience of the Revolution" and described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America, Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, historian, and playwright. She believed in the Revolution and played an integral role in capturing, shaping, and moving the cause forward. Born in 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis was the third of thirteen children and the family’s oldest daughter. She grew up in a household where her intellectual and academic pursuits were encouraged, which was unusual for women at the time. She married James Warren, a politician, in 1754, and they had five sons. Defying custom and convention, Warren was openly political, engaging with many great figures and thinkers like…
One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand.
Plus musical corpses and senility. The post What Military-Industrial Complex? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Political Asylum What Military-Industrial Complex? Plus musical corpses and senility. Any chance you, too, remember the military-industrial complex? How’s about the national security state or, to summon the ghost of C. Wright Mills, the power elite? Maybe the term “establishment” comes to mind, that pejorative popularized by Henry Fairlie, in his 1955 description of how and by whom political influence was exercised in Great Britain. If you remember any of those terms, you might also recall that they symbolized structures of government that every respectable progressive—the nonce word for liberals—once opposed. The military-industrial complex, et al., referred to…Open
Carl Trueman's latest book, The Desecration of Man, offers a powerful diagnosis of what's wrong with our culture. Can religious faith pull us back from the brink?
