We must become more aware of the way language shapes reality.
Elizabeth Corey
Oakeshott’s vision of liberal learning offers the prospect of intellectual and moral adventure.
Can identity politics be reconciled with a politics of shared interest and aims for everyone?
While acerbic criticism may rally the troops, it probably does more harm than good in pursuance of civil peace.
Civility is not much prized in our revolutionary climate because it is a deeply traditional practice.
Elizabeth Corey is an associate professor of political science in the Honors Program at Baylor University. She is the author of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics and Politics (University of Missouri Press), and in 2022 is a visiting professor at the American Enterprise Institute’s Faith and Public Life initiative. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, publisher of First Things.