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Katherine Mansfield wanted to be the next Chekhov. Some critics want to turn her into a martyr for feminism instead.
Don Kleine: modernagejournal.com/katheri…
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Jun 12
The Declaration of Independence teaches truths that inspire and unite, writes @ISI Conservative Book of the Year Award winner Matthew Spalding @HillsdaleDC: modernagejournal.com/rekindl…
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Was Katherine Mansfield a feminist icon—or perhaps something more?
Don Kleine, from 1993: modernagejournal.com/katheri…
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Jun 11
“DEI has been transformed from what was basically a leftist academic theory into a protest. ‘These are now fighting words,’ writes @GregBerman50 in ‘The Nonprofit Crisis.’”
Read @mhartmannmke’s review here: modernagejournal.com/deis-da…
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Can philanthropy survive our polarized politics?
@mhartmannmke reviews @GregBerman50’s book “The Nonprofit Crisis” @OxUniPress: modernagejournal.com/deis-da…
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Montesquieu’s thoughts on government shaped our republic from the beginning, writes Frederic M. Fenger: modernagejournal.com/the-fou…
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The Declaration of Independence teaches truths that inspire and unite.
Matthew Spalding @HillsdaleInDC, winner of @ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award for “The Making of the American Mind” @EncounterBooks: modernagejournal.com/rekindl…
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Matthew Spalding @HillsdaleInDC received this year’s Conservative Book of the Year Award @ISI for “The Making of the American Mind” @EncounterBooks. Read his remarks here: modernagejournal.com/rekindl…
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Richard Weaver reviewing C.S. Lewis's Studies in Words, republished in @ISI's @ModAgeJournal - modernagejournal.com/a-moral…
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Jun 8
“‘Terrafutura’ reveals just how fractious debate over common goods can be—not despite their universal importance but because of it.”
@Hannah_Cristine on Pope Francis’s conversations with @SlowFoodHQ founder Carlo Petrini: modernagejournal.com/pope-fr…
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What do RFK and Pope Francis have in common?
@Hannah_Cristine on the pope’s conversations about our food economy published by @Georgetown_UP: modernagejournal.com/pope-fr…
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Jun 5
“Generations of Americans have moved us toward human freedom by accepting the invitation to prove to the world that human beings are capable of self-government.”
Brenda Hafera @Heritage revisits @Akhil_Reed_Amar’s book “The Words That Made Us”: modernagejournal.com/the-rea…
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A classic on a lingering and hastening problem from Phillip Kurland at @moder
Jun 4
“Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare—to interpret law, and not to make, or give law,” Francis Bacon wrote in 1625.
Philip B. Kurland on the proper role of the Supreme Court: modernagejournal.com/governm…
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“@Akhil_Reed_Amar’s book ‘The Words That Made Us’ is another attempt at getting American history right. Now five years old, it’s worth revisiting as we approach our country’s quarter-millennium.”
From Brenda Hafera @Heritage: modernagejournal.com/the-rea…
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The always good Francis P. Sempa in @ModAgeJournal arguing against over applying historical lessons from the #Thucydides Trap of @GrahamTAllison to the "Munich" lesson to the "Domino Theory."
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I agree. While I use historical analogies frequently to highlight how various events can rhyme over time, you need to be careful not to over do it. It can be helpful to understand how decisions under similar circumstances were made & why in the past, but the lessons are never inevitable.
Just as geography influences the constraints leaders face, it is not inevitable in determining war & peace.
Individual decisions of leaders at critical moments is what ultimately decides the fate of war & peace even if within a constrained context.
#History #Geopolitics
That is not Inevitability but radical contingency.
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“Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare—to interpret law, and not to make, or give law,” Francis Bacon wrote in 1625.
Philip B. Kurland on the proper role of the Supreme Court: modernagejournal.com/governm…
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“In the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides identified war’s most common motivators as fear, honor, and interest—all of which are based in each instance on human perceptions. Doctrines, theories, and general laws can shape those perceptions, but in the end it is human agency that decides for peace or war.”
Francis P. Sempa: modernagejournal.com/is-war-…
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A worthwhile piece here by @nmosvick
Jun 2
“Neil Gorsuch has made a splash lately doing rounds of interviews to promote his new children’s book on the Declaration of Independence. But his view of history leaves little room for nuance or complexity.”
@nmosvick: modernagejournal.com/neil-go…
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Gorsuch's Conterfeit Creed.
- from @ModAgeJournal
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