Covid and peak woke deepened the right’s antipathy to social dictates. The post The Common Good Debate Leaves Out the Base’s Desire to Be Left Alone appeared first on The American Conservative .
Conservatism The Common Good Debate Leaves Out the Base’s Desire to Be Left Alone Covid and peak woke deepened the right’s antipathy to social dictates. Conservative intellectuals have spent the past month fiercely debating the “common good.” On one side are those who believe that government policy should operate on this principle (however it’s defined). On the other side are those who warn that it threatens individual liberty. The debate inspired dozens of articles and tweets on the topic, illustrating some of the bitter divides on the right during the second Trump administration. But for all the…Open
A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would […] The post Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition The terms of bureaucratic discipline drift ever further from the actual usages of the English language. A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would have succeeded. I suppose that it would now be as impossible to return the word discrimination to the sense in which my teacher (now long dead)…Open
Other historical analogies offer more relevant lessons. The post To End the Iran War, We Must Look Beyond Munich appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Iran War To End the Iran War, We Must Look Beyond Munich Other historical analogies offer more relevant lessons. (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sulgrave Institution of the U.S. and Great Britain/Creative Commons) In 1919, John Maynard Keynes left the Paris Peace Conference convinced the Allies were making a blunder of historic proportions. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, he prophesied that the terms imposed by the victors were so punitive they would wreck the defeated Germans’ economy and set the stage for another world war. He was right, and there is a lesson here for President Trump’s…Open
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would work with Alejandro Betancourt López, whose family manages Venezuela’s second-largest private oil producer, North American Blue Energy Partners, according to four people familiar with the agreement deal. Trump announced in a social media post, writing, “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall speaks with Ed Hirs, an energy fellow at the University of Houston, to discuss.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a Lake Ontario sign after President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”
Missie Vess, systems engineer for the Roman Space Telescope that will launch this weekend, joins “NewsNation Prime” to preview the capabilities of the observatory, which is made in party from a discarded spy satellite. “We’re going to be able to explore more about dark energy, that secret force that’s causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. And also more about dark matter, which is the ‘stuff’ that we know is out there because we see how it interacts with things that we can observe,” Vess says. #Space #Universe "NewsNation Prime" is America’s source for unbiased news offering a full range of perspectives from across the U.S. Weekends starting at 7p/6C. #Prime NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased…
Fox News host Mark Levin digs into the importance of capitalism as well as socialism's history, its philosophy and who tries to impose it on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.' Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews/join
