Despite careful readings of his chosen thinkers, Beiner doesn’t offer deeper analysis of either the alt-right or the several -isms he views as problematic.
Emina Melonic
Novelists are no longer interested in leading us into the interior lives of the character.
Without taking into consideration a metaphysical make-up of human beings and the world that surrounds them, comprehending political life will be difficult.
In the small but somewhat potent mix of bourgeois socialists, there is only room for the conservation and propagation of ideology.
Michael Brendan Dougherty takes a unique route to the exploration of identity, and seeks to resolve a conflict within himself.
We are living in a society in which tastemakers are far more likely to offer hollow cries for justice than they are to recognize artistic endeavors.
The very ideologues who claim that we must be kind are not inclined to be kind to their political opponents—for with them, compassion is merely rhetorical.
James Matthew Wilson's poems in The Hanging God speak about the reality of life and the love we give, receive, or reject.
We need a restoration of the face-to-face encounter. Only then will ideology be confronted and unmasked, and true political activity take its proper place.
Michael Oakeshott aimed to carve out a space for political education without ideology: this makes him especially vital to reread today.