Daily Archives: August 16, 2020

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Rick Perlstein writes in 2001: Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes—an attitude most visible in his views on discrimination. “There never was a lot of it,” he recalled of the Phoenix … Continue reading

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The Theological Origins Of Modernity

Michael Allen Gillespie writes in this 2009 book: Petrarch asserts unequivocally in The Solitary Life that public life is incompatible with virtue. At the heart of this claim is his conviction that social life is dominated by the opinions and … Continue reading

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