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Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when ...

Television for serious readers. Im now happy to introduce you to tonights guest speaker. Robert house has been a visiting professor at, among other institutions harvard law school, tel aviv university, the Hebrew University of jerusalem and the university of paris. His books include the regulation of international trade, the wto system law, politics and legitimacy and outline of a femmenology of rights. Professor house has been a frequent consultant or adviser to agencies including the Interamerican Development bank. Professor house is also a member of the board of advisers of the nyu center f...

"Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and autho...

Many young startup founders trying to emulate Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Travis Kalanick move to a hacker house to work on the next big thing. They need to build a sense of mission within the company, but sometimes the hacker house itself becomes a cult around the house leader. At scale, the more dys...

The modern conception, in Deneen's view, spawned societal pathologies that the modern liberal framework cannot solve. His proposed solution in "Why Liberalism Failed" was to lean into the creation of a counterculture that would stand in defiance of this dominant paradigm, a sentiment resonating with the likes of Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option" strain of community-based Christianity, a self-contained and intentional microcosm that can survive the horrors of another dark age, forest passage, or whichever metaphor believers wish to use to conceptualize these putativel...