Tag: virtue
Richard Weaver on War and Stephen Smith on Liberalism in ANAMNESIS.
FPR readers will be interested in two new essays in ANAMNESIS. The first, by Professor Jay Langdale, is a fascinating examination of Richard Weaver's...
“Freedom or Virtue?” Revisited
About this time last year, Mitch Daniels, the Republican Governor of Indiana, stirred some controversy by calling on conservatives to declare a truce on...
Living Alone
The New York Times recently ran a précis of a book by Eric Klinenberg, a professor of sociology at New York University and the...
Untaxing the Virtues
What the political mainstream ignores, unsurprisingly, is that any change in how we raise revenue cannot be only about balancing the numbers. It also involves judgements about the texture of society and the virtues that habits of livelihood can inculcate or destroy.
Why We Need Jane Austen or How to be a Gentleman...
Austen provides something for which young people—even the jaded ones—secretly long.
Have We Forgotten the Women?
Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.
An Apologia for Tiger Woods
The rise and fall of Tiger Woods leads to a brief meditation both on beauty and virtue.
And the Jays Have it (Republican Bunning Hazards the Impolitic)
As one of literary bent and so frequently guilty of casting the charge of a Pox On Both Houses at our besotted political parties, I was impressed that at long last, at least one Republican stalwart stood tall and took a beating in the name of fiscal discipline.
A Tale of Two Banks
He discovered that he could solve the dependence on loan sharks in one village with a mere $27 in capital. For a man who was used to working in millions and billions, this was a real revelation