Burke, Tocqueville, and Lincoln arrived at different assessments of the political problems they faced. The point of Dan Mahoney’s beautifully written and thoughtful book is not merely to praise these individual statesmen, but to help the reader assess the practical wisdom and moral virtues of these exemplary statesmen.
The Pride flag is presented as an emblem of inclusion, love, and tolerance. However, an analysis of the historical uses of flags, and the recent proliferation of LGBT flags, illustrates two truths. The first is that the flag is a tool of symbolic exclusion and division. The second truth is that the flag is a signifier of a particular garrison in the culture war. It demonstrates both the triumph of the movement and its disunion.
There is a God-shaped hole in the American soul. We’re not going to fill it with tech, or entertainment, or drugs, or violence–but lots of people might try. Big Tech wants the bots to whisper sweet nothings at you, others are on a quest to worship the ultimate super drug, and still others would simply burn the system down just to feel something. Our editors discuss how we can come back down to reality.
