In a time when a supposedly elusive bipartisan consensus is
actually alive and well in the service of statism and federalism is
considered a quaint rhetorical device rather than a bulwark against
tyranny, is it reasonable to believe long-discarded founding
principles of our fledging former selves might offer some measure
of salvation?
Perhaps. Perhaps not. But two politics professors at The King’s College in New York City are doing their damnedest to nudge us toward answering in the affirmative via a edifying, challenging series of essays — e.g., “What’s a ‘Trigger Word’ Citizen To Do?”; “Reflection and Choice Or Accident and Force” — and a well-curated Twitter feed.
To further their case, C. David Corbin and Matt Parks submitted to the friendly inquisition that follows.
To your credit, these essays don’t feel as if they are an exercise in pounding an antique square philosophical peg into the round hole of contemporary politics. Have you been at all surprised by the ease with which certain principles therein can illuminate potential solutions to modern folly?
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/21/what-would-publius-do
Perhaps. Perhaps not. But two politics professors at The King’s College in New York City are doing their damnedest to nudge us toward answering in the affirmative via a edifying, challenging series of essays — e.g., “What’s a ‘Trigger Word’ Citizen To Do?”; “Reflection and Choice Or Accident and Force” — and a well-curated Twitter feed.
To further their case, C. David Corbin and Matt Parks submitted to the friendly inquisition that follows.
To your credit, these essays don’t feel as if they are an exercise in pounding an antique square philosophical peg into the round hole of contemporary politics. Have you been at all surprised by the ease with which certain principles therein can illuminate potential solutions to modern folly?
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/21/what-would-publius-do
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