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Vor 3 Tagen · This week, it’s Gertrude Himmelfarb’s 1987 paper ‘Victorian Values and Twentieth-Century Condescension’. In it, Himmelfarb argued that Thatcher’s government truly knew what attitudes drove most Britons, and critiqued the ‘social-control’ theory of history, which posits that manners, morality and conventions are all mechanisms of ...
Vor 5 Tagen · But none perhaps has done so as penetratingly as Gertrude Himmelfarb, the American historian, in ‘Does history talk sense?’. There she describes the regime Oakeshott imposes on the historian as ‘austere and difficult’, in one sense ‘exceedingly modest’, and in another ‘exceedingly ambitious’.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
- 1933
Vor einem Tag · May 19, 2024. -Analysis-. MEXICO CITY — The Mexican worker is traditionally an odd-jobs man or a jack-of--all-trades par excellence. It is one of our boldest traits but also inevitable in a nation where most have no choice but to work wherever and however possible to earn a living. The actor Héctor Suárez honored the condition in the 1983 ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Figures like Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling reshaped the liberal narrative, steering it towards a perilous philosophy centered on the unyielding preservation of individual liberty. The Legacy and Its Consequences: A Time for Reflection
Vor 3 Tagen · Podcast: Yuval Levin on the Remarkable Legacy of Gertrude Himmelfarb; Podcast: Best of 2019 at the Tikvah Podcast; Podcast: Arthur Herman on China and the U.S.-Israel “Special Relationship” Podcast: Walter Russell Mead on Israel and American Foreign Policy; Podcast: Senator Joseph Lieberman on American Jews and the Zionist Dream
Vor 4 Tagen · The former Master of Peterhouse, Herbert Butterfield, has become something of a cottage industry over the past ten years or so, with a number of monographs resurrecting a career that had previously fallen into neglect.
Vor 5 Tagen · On today’s episode, Acton librarian and research associate Dan Hugger sits down with Acton research director John Pinheiro to talk about the state of higher education in America and contrast it with the philosophy of liberal learning advanced by the late Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. Has philosophy fled the academy?
