From the Chicago Tribune: On the 100th anniversary of his birth Tuesday, one may wonder what the Nobel laureate would say about the more controversial
“Put another way, tradition and community are not mere inheritances passively received form the past and certainly not merely fetters on human freedom. Tradition, to
Traditionally, Bastille Day celebrates in perpetua an inaugural anniversary (1790’s Fête de la Fédération), itself commemorating an infamous fortress-prison’s storming (July 14, 1789) that tipped-off
Joseph Cropsey—American political philosopher; distinguished service professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago; dedicated teacher; and coeditor of the
This post is sponsored by a trip to my parents’ house—on a non-descript island in the Detroit River, among the postindustrial, downriver suburbs of southeastern Michigan,
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and