The political power and influence of an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump, while superficially encouraging, is really a symptom of a flawed, poorly structured political system.
In recoiling from the fragmentation of values that characterizes modernity, MacIntyre has presented less an alternative to the depredations of liberal individualism than an escape from its challenges.
We are equipped with common sense and moral sense just as we are equipped with the senses of taste, smell, sight, hearing, and touch. We are simply made that way.
Vulture capitalism is a deviant and baseless form of capitalism, totally without virtue. In this fictional account of a debate between George Soros and the author, we see why.
No problem will solve itself. There is no moment where enough is enough, and the resolution into harmony resolves on its own as the pendulum swings back.
We need to restore prudence as an intellectual virtue again in order to revive a deeper appreciation for human well-being. Common sense is due for a comeback.
For writers at Salon “liberal” signifies whatever they and their circle of groupies would like it to mean and has little attachment to historical reality.
What Harry Jaffa teaches is neither easy nor comforting. Rather than offer his students and readers idle chatter or shallow patriotism, he sought to reveal how natural right remains a living force.