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Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
History has no sides. That this has been easily missed by modern conservatives arises, I suspect, from the dearth of conservative historical consciousness. The bulk of modern conservative intellectual energy has been devoted to politics, economic policy, and political philosophy; there has been no corresponding conservative historical theory, much less a natural law theory of history. But there should, and must, be one. We will need it, too, because all the major movements of the last century into tyranny and intellectual vacuity have been built on theories, not of economics or politics, but of history.
—Allen Guelzo
in a review of Joel Richard Paul’s Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism, in the Claremont Review of Books (2022)
— Culture — Commonplaces #176 — July/August 2023 —
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