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Daniel E. Ritchie, professor of English and founder of the Humanities Program at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is author of The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer (Baylor University Press, 2010).

August 31, 2018|Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, Erica Jong, Harvey Mansfield, honor, masculinity, The Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Small House at Allington, The Warden

Anthony Trollope and the “Trouthe” about Manhood

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Anthony Trollope's character Louis Trevelyan from "He Knew He Was Right"

He isn’t known for tough-guy fiction, but Trollope’s characters enact what it means to be a man.

January 23, 2017|David Bromwich, Statesmanship and Party Government, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

Powerful Sympathies Powerfully Restrained

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Watching the NCAA Final Four with my teenage boys some years ago, I began to lament the vanity of human wishes. “Just think, boys, this game is the high point of life for many of the athletes on the floor.” “That’s right, Dad,” replied the older. “They’re never going to give a lecture on Edmund Burke or write an article on Edmund Burke. All they’re going to do is lead their team to a national championship in front of 50 million people.” Well! Even if there are fewer than 50 million of you, I feel immensely privileged to write about David…

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The oldest emergency proclamation dates to the Carter Administration, 40 years ago. Two generations of crisis are enough.
by Greg Weiner
The President’s Emergency Declaration Is the Congressional Check on Presidential Power

President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency is the check on executive prerogative, not the exercise of it.
by James R. Rogers
Completely Unjustified Occupational Licensing

Occupational licensing is dangerous and we should almost always rely upon certification.
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Harold Ramis, Unlikely Prophet of Trump

Nobody stopped to think these films were not just comedy, but also stories about a coming class conflict in America.
by Titus Techera
Judicial Statesmanship versus Judicial Fidelity

Since the boundaries of left and right are always changing, a court focused on retaining its political capital would have the constancy of a weather vane.
by John O. McGinnis

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