The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

What is freedom? Not in the philosophical sense; that's boring and done to death. Rather, what is freedom as something that emerges from lived reality, and how does it relate to human flourishing? Through the lens of Sebastian Junger's "Freedom," a modest book only modestly successful.

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Of Robert Gould Shaw, a man who was once the embodiment of heroism, and of what heroism means, and should mean, today.

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Hannah Arendt's semi-worthwhile thoughts on revolution, mostly superseded or proven wrong in the fifty years since, and written in an opaque and annoying style.  (This review was first published September 13, 2018.)

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The dense-but-very-worthwhile thoughts of Carl Schmitt, preeminent political philosopher, on democracy, parliamentarianism, liberalism, and much more, all with notable application for us today.

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Our future, if we have the will to grasp it, in a nutshell.

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Something different--not a complete Worthy House offering, but a direction to one related to The Worthy House. I am pleased to announce that The Claremont Institute, in the form of The American Mind, a publication of the Institute, has published a Special Edition of its regular podcast. This Special Edition features, and consists of nothing but, a discussion between Michael Anton, author of the crucial books "The Stakes" and "After the Flight 93 Election," and myself. We talk about Straussianism, Augustus, our past, and our future.  You can find the podcast here:

  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Go8VDI2_s8&t=2067s

  The American Mind: https://americanmind.org/audio/the-american-mind-podcast-special-edition-america-in-decay-hope-or-despair/

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Of a forgotten book that precisely predicts our current American situation, and is a salutary reminder of the universal behavior of the Left.

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The insane, yet weirdly compelling and with flashes of great insight, vision of the late Guillaume Faye, who wrote of combining the past and the future, while erasing the present.  (This review was first published September 10, 2018.)

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Of the downsides, and a few upsides, of private equity and other financial engineering, viewed through the decline of Lancaster, Ohio, a condensed symbol of much that has gone wrong with America.

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And now for something completely different, an eighty-year-old work about medieval philosophies. (The written version of this review was first published September 8, 2018.  Written versions are available here.)