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Category Archives: America
Howard Lutnick and the Two Terrors
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) wrote in The Denial of Death that a man lives pinned between two fears he can never fully face. The first is death: the body that rots, the heart that stops, the animal end that comes for … Continue reading
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Full Faith and Credit
A nine-year-old in Conway, South Carolina, watches the ground go out from under his father. Homer Gaston Bessent Jr. sells real estate on the Grand Strand and then he sells nothing, and the firm fails, and the family learns what … Continue reading
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Razin Caine and the Quiet He Cannot Keep
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) opens The Denial of Death with a claim that sounds like overstatement and turns out to be the floor under everything else. Man knows he will die, and man cannot bear the knowing. Around it he builds … Continue reading
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Pete Hegseth and the Sacred Word
A man who has carried a coffin knows a thing the rest of us only suspect. The body inside was a friend an hour before it was a weight. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) built his life’s argument on that gap. In … Continue reading
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The Bridge and the Hammer
The Seder ends near midnight on April 13, 2025. The plates sit on the table inside the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg. Josh Shapiro (b. 1973), his wife, their four children, and some of the extended family go to sleep. A … Continue reading
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Stay in the Back
Pat Summerall (1930-2013) calls the game, and then he walks to the back of the airplane and throws up blood. He has called football for CBS across two decades. The country knows the voice. The voice runs calm, spare, sure … Continue reading
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Good Evening, Folks
The Capitol dome stands lit. It is July 1980. It is evening on the East Front, the marble still giving back the day’s heat. A black limousine waits at the curb with the engine running. A Capitol policeman holds a … Continue reading
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What Might A Republican Platform Look Like If It Aligned With Reality?
If John J. Mearsheimer’s premises are correct that human behavior is governed by innate tribal sentiments and childhood value infusions, that abstract reason is a weak secondary tool, and that the international arena is an unyielding great power competition, the … Continue reading
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Who Rules: The Political Thought of Angelo Codevilla
Angelo Codevilla (1943–2021) joined classical political philosophy to the practical work of intelligence, diplomacy, and statecraft. He served in government, taught in universities, and wrote for a popular audience, and across those settings he built a sustained critique of the … Continue reading
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The Other Constitution: John Marini on Bureaucracy and the American Founding
John Marini (b. 1946) is an American political theorist whose study of the administrative state has become a reference point for contemporary conservative constitutional thought. He spent his career within the orbit of the Claremont School, and he built that … Continue reading
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