Why do you call that song Whitney Houston's when Dolly Parton wrote and sang it? Whitney gave it the melodramatic Hollywood treatment, never understanding what it was about.
Liked your use of ‘right proper,’ hailing as I do from the north-east. On your reflections on woke schools and their weak or indifferent administration, can I suggest a glance at Charles Murray’s recent piece in the Spectator? He makes a rather compelling case that the behavior of colleges, in the vanguard of CRT, may be unwittingly dangerous.
I see that you mentioned Gordon Wood. I wound up rereading his Revolutionary Characters a couple of months ago. This was after it occurred to me that Harry Jaffa was as much a liberal originalism legal theorist as a political philosopher. I wound up listening to Con Law lectures for a while as I worked. One was a double-header as a school in Ohio was visited by Wood and an originalism professor was followed by Wood.
I'm a layman, so if I ever heard the phrase republican synthesis pre Covid, I forgot it. Did or does Wood think that Machiavelli and others were as much of an influence on the Founders as Locke? My impression is that his thinking evolved, as did John Adams and the others.
I found most thought provoking from that book were the discussions on the War of 1812 and the Alien and Sedition Acts. The former made me wonder where or not Hamiltonian fiscal militarism was necessary for America to survive. The later made me think about Truth. Also, it referenced the French view of free speech, but I haven't been able to find anything on that.
Why do you call that song Whitney Houston's when Dolly Parton wrote and sang it? Whitney gave it the melodramatic Hollywood treatment, never understanding what it was about.
Liked your use of ‘right proper,’ hailing as I do from the north-east. On your reflections on woke schools and their weak or indifferent administration, can I suggest a glance at Charles Murray’s recent piece in the Spectator? He makes a rather compelling case that the behavior of colleges, in the vanguard of CRT, may be unwittingly dangerous.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/identity-crisis-politics-race-wreck-america-charles-murray/
I see that you mentioned Gordon Wood. I wound up rereading his Revolutionary Characters a couple of months ago. This was after it occurred to me that Harry Jaffa was as much a liberal originalism legal theorist as a political philosopher. I wound up listening to Con Law lectures for a while as I worked. One was a double-header as a school in Ohio was visited by Wood and an originalism professor was followed by Wood.
I'm a layman, so if I ever heard the phrase republican synthesis pre Covid, I forgot it. Did or does Wood think that Machiavelli and others were as much of an influence on the Founders as Locke? My impression is that his thinking evolved, as did John Adams and the others.
I found most thought provoking from that book were the discussions on the War of 1812 and the Alien and Sedition Acts. The former made me wonder where or not Hamiltonian fiscal militarism was necessary for America to survive. The later made me think about Truth. Also, it referenced the French view of free speech, but I haven't been able to find anything on that.