In a Wall Street Journal essay last fall, in advance of President Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor, Robert George wrote this: “Here is my proposal: To fill the seat….Bush should nominate an intellectually distinguished and articulate judge willing to […]
Archives for January 2006
Timetables and Unfinished Business
Alexis de Tocqueville, that most astute analyst of American society, said “there are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it”, and that such people also have “an excessive love of tranquility”. Probably true, and we have had ample proof of these […]
Drucker and the New Social Contract
One of my heroes, Peter Drucker, died last November, just in time to produce highlights of his work and ideas at the peak of the transformation from the old social contract to his “new realities”, as illustrated by the demise of the poster child of the old contract, General Motors. GM was the model of […]
The Hazard of Moral Neutrality
Recently, I was struck by reports that graduating seniors from Christian high schools in California are having difficulty getting accepted by some University of California system affiliates because some of their high school courses are deemed to be biased in favor of Christianity. According to the journal First Things, one university said that “religion and […]