Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Individualism
The Demise of Being Independent
Today I had the misfortune of finding out that yet another independent book seller is on the brink of closure. It seems to me that…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Need for Nations”
“It is my contention that people need to identify themselves through a first person plural if they are to accept the sacrifices required by society….
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. Why aren’t you a liberal?” “A. Well, I think basically because liberalism is not a three dimensional view of life. I don’t think it’s at all deep…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“Rights expand to meet the egos of those for whom freedom is nothing but unconstrained action (The only good that deserves the name, says Mill,…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “Erasing America”
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…
Quote of the Week: Arthur Bryant, “Set in a Silver Sea”
“Rome had grown out of greatness of individual character. It became a community in which individual character counted for nothing compared with an abstraction which…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Conservatism has different versions because its advocates disagree about what political arrangements would make a society good. There is, however, no disagreement about having to…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“But, as the great historian Lord Acton said, ‘Ideas have a radiation and a development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men…