Tom Nichol’s ‘bits and pieces’ via Twitter are necessarily reductive and loaded, being a product of Twitter as so ably sized up in the second newsletter. He defines conservatism by contemptibly counter-defining liberalism. (Intellectually,that’s not the best of the conservative tradition, so I look forward to the book.)
For the liberals…
Tom Nichol’s ‘bits and pieces’ via Twitter are necessarily reductive and loaded, being a product of Twitter as so ably sized up in the second newsletter. He defines conservatism by contemptibly counter-defining liberalism. (Intellectually,that’s not the best of the conservative tradition, so I look forward to the book.)
For the liberals I know and admire, liberty is inseparably tied to responsibility, sin is a state of human nature, virtue is hard won, virtue ethics reign, and, importantly, the past informs and enables a private person, citizen and our precious state to move forward with clarity.
Ti be clear, authoritarianism is a state actor, simply one wholly unbounded a Constitutional tradition like ours, one knitted together oarh-taking-and keeping state institutions and state representatives, each deeply committed to upholding their sacred pledges to the rest of us.
Ours is not a ‘bouncy house ‘ but it clearly is a magnificent product of human imagination of a more perfect union.
That said, I am extremely grateful for young conservative minds attuned to what matters. Let us all call out Trumpism. It is anathema to conservation of our beloved Constitution and our shared prospects of a more perfect union (one with the potential to learn and self correct in an ever-contingent world), one that will hold only if our institutions, representatives, citizens, journalists and historians fully and adroitly exercise all of the virtues that enable the good, including justice and temperance.
Tom Nichol’s ‘bits and pieces’ via Twitter are necessarily reductive and loaded, being a product of Twitter as so ably sized up in the second newsletter. He defines conservatism by contemptibly counter-defining liberalism. (Intellectually,that’s not the best of the conservative tradition, so I look forward to the book.)
For the liberals I know and admire, liberty is inseparably tied to responsibility, sin is a state of human nature, virtue is hard won, virtue ethics reign, and, importantly, the past informs and enables a private person, citizen and our precious state to move forward with clarity.
Ti be clear, authoritarianism is a state actor, simply one wholly unbounded a Constitutional tradition like ours, one knitted together oarh-taking-and keeping state institutions and state representatives, each deeply committed to upholding their sacred pledges to the rest of us.
Ours is not a ‘bouncy house ‘ but it clearly is a magnificent product of human imagination of a more perfect union.
That said, I am extremely grateful for young conservative minds attuned to what matters. Let us all call out Trumpism. It is anathema to conservation of our beloved Constitution and our shared prospects of a more perfect union (one with the potential to learn and self correct in an ever-contingent world), one that will hold only if our institutions, representatives, citizens, journalists and historians fully and adroitly exercise all of the virtues that enable the good, including justice and temperance.
Thanks also for Bulwark.