Orestes Brownson’s view is that America is the prudent compromise between two idealistic extremes.
Peter Augustine Lawler
Now that Mad Men is over, we begin by remembering that it was a deeply political show.
The key conflict these days is between “originalism” and deference to legislatures.
“Mike” (the name he has on his website) Bloomberg’s commencement speech at Harvard is quite a work of art.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn heard just beneath the surface of the happy-talk of American pragmatists the howl of existentialism.
Tyler Cowen’s Average is Over could also be called The End of the Middle-Class Nation.
Peter Lawler (1957-2017) was Dana Professor of Government and former chair of the department of Government and International Studies at Berry College. Lawler served on President Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2004-09. He authored numerous books, including Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future.