So now we have a nominee of the Democratic Party and the main event can proceed. The most hotly contested primary in electoral memory, which was destined to produce at least one of two history-making results, produced the one that almost no one would have predicted as recently as six months ago, and the Clintons, despite […]
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The Forgotten Man
The previous essay glides readily into the central theme of Amity Shlaes’s book, The Forgotten Man, which I recommend as a thoroughly engrossing history of the Great Depression. The connection to the charity analogy is with the image of “the forgotten man” created by the architects of the Franklin Roosevelt election campaign and the New Deal. This adaptation was […]
Charity and Liberalism
In a recent sermon delivered by Harvey C. Mansfield at Appleton Chapel in Memorial Church, Harvard University, we are reminded of the admonition of St. Thomas Aquinas that charity is the chief of the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity and that charity is the common form of all the virtues because all depend […]