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4 days ago · To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies and the 10th of CapX, we’ve been republishing CPS pamphlets from our archive. 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 ...
May 13, 2024 · Neuhaus’ skills as a writer, editor, and networker were the secret to the magazine’s success, but even he could not prevent tensions from boiling over. Lord Acton’s biographer Gertrude Himmelfarb resigned from the board of the magazine after a symposium titled “The End of Democracy” published in November of 1996.
Apr 24, 2024 · In the late 1990s, neoconservative historian Gertrude Himmelfarb offered her own “neo-Luddite” dissent. As she wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education , she was “disturbed” by digital technology’s effects on education.
May 11, 2024 · As Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote in her 2004 book, “The Roads to Modernity,” if the members of the French Enlightenment focused on the power of reason, members of the British Enlightenment ...
May 3, 2024 · Luis Rubio Jack-of-all-trades (Milusos in Spanish) is one of the most accurate and audacious, at the same time, characterizations of the Mexican who can do nothing other than work for a living. Héctor Suárez, an actor, popularized the term in his film of the same name, a drama and simultaneously a social critique: the enormous capacity.
6 days ago · Historical fact, Oakeshott declares, in Experience and Its Modes, is a conclusion, a result, an inference and a judgement. As such it belongs, like everything else, to the world of present experience. Like the ‘historical past’, it is ‘what the evidence obliges us to believe’ (pp. 111–2). Truth is coherence in a world of present ideas.
6 days ago · Acton Line. Fr. James Schall and the Crisis in Higher Education. 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 ...
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