Tag: political myths

We don’t have to sleepwalk into communism, into fascism, or into Civil War. We are the ones we have been ...

Obama is, sad to say, lost without my book. My book? Well, when your subject heading of "political philosophy" approaches ...

People in their 30s, 40s and 50s, raised on the heroism of Ronald Reagan and the Gulf War, convinced a ...

I'm a big Harry Truman fan. But we live in a time when the assumptions under which we have lived ...

The Nixon Thesis worked. It brought the Movement to power. In the form of Reaganism, that movement triumphed in its ...

The Open Source Thesis is that the values of this medium need to be incorporated into policy, that its reach ...

Rather than arguing against what a fool believes, wise men will seize the power to reason a way out, a ...

What was needed, at all these times, were new political myths, new values, in order to create a new meaning ...

Notice that these are optimistic values, liberating values. They're the values of 1776, and of 1860, and of 1932. A ...