What did Duncan and Goldberg discuss?
Part one of Duncan’s interview with Jonah Goldberg. Duncan and Jonah discuss how the Howard Zinn approach to American history (the so-called “conflict school”) has changed higher education and why American students fail to appreciate the uniqueness of the American liberal tradition.
Who is Harvey Mansfield?
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University professor and political philosophy scholar, joins Duncan Moench to discuss being the last (explicitly) conservative professor teaching at an Ivy League university, and how cancel culture reflects serious problems with contemporary liberalism.
Conversations with prominent scholars, writers, and thinkers about the American political tradition and its future
Conversations with prominent scholars, writers, and thinkers about the American political tradition and its future.
S2:E1: Harvey Mansfield - the Ivy League's Last Conservative - on Cancel Culture
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University professor and political philosophy scholar, joins Duncan Moench to discuss being the last (explicitly) conservative professor teaching at an Ivy League university, and how cancel culture reflects serious problems with contemporary liberalism.
S1:EP11: Notions of Innocence and Stain in Contemporary Politics with Joshua Mitchell
How he knew Trump would win before anyone else (3:00); Identity politics (IP) as the fig leaf covering the obscene wealth of liberal elites (7:00); globalism leads to “existential homeless” (15:30); the so-called liberal world order is genuinely diverse or even liberal at all (22:30); describing thought he calls “white progressive racism” (33:00); “selfie man” vs.
S1:EP9: Joanne Freeman: Political violence, Civil War, and watching your words
The role of honor culture and how the practice of dueling played a role in the lead up to the US Civil War.
S1:EP8: Patrick Deneen – Are American elites a new form aristocracy?
Two forms of liberalism — one liberation oriented, the other community oriented (5); Market utility-maximizing thinking creates “statist individualism” (11) Each side of American politics have sides seeking to restrain different parts of liberal excess (12:30); “liberalocrats” operate w/o cultural, moral, or national boundaries but use “social justice” to protect their interests (17); class is not seen as part of identity in the US (21); Trump and his movement represented an attempt to....
S1:EP7: R. Brookhiser – US political divide not as bad as many say
Witnessing the end of the Roosevelt coalition and rise of the “silent majority” (7); William F.
