F. H. Buckley
Autor von The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America
Über den Autor
F. H. Buckley is Associate Dean and Executive Director, Law Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law
Werke von F. H. Buckley
The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It (2017) 10 Exemplare
The Republican Workers Party : how the Trump victory drove everyone crazy, and why it was just what we needed (2018) 7 Exemplare
Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party (2022) 5 Exemplare
Curiosity: And Its Twelve Rules for Life 1 Exemplar
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Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Mitwirkender — 48 Exemplare
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- Buckley, Francis Herbert
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- 1948
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- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- McGill University
Harvard Law School
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I also had a big problem once I realized the aim of this treatise was to pin the waning of our collective curiosity on political progressives. When I Googled the author, I discovered he was once a speechwriter for Trump, who has also written a book about how Trump's 2016 victory was "just what we needed". Needless to say, I have a hard time buying an argument that progressives have smothered curiosity when this author served under the least curious president in American history. As I watch the far-right do just as much 'canceling' as the far-left, his whole premise falls through, in my opinion.
Yet, I continued - perhaps out of spite - because this is a book on curiosity, I'm a progressive, and I didn't want to stop being "curious" about this author's point-of-view, despite knowing he was ultimately building to laying blame at my own feet. So, I muscled through, tedious though it was. I can't recommend it, though, unless you are a Trump-supporting intellectual (did I just use that phrase?) who wants to gather up historical anecdotes to toss around at an American Spectator BBQ about why those lining up to support social justice are stifling your freedoms.
It's funny. Given Mr Buckley feels the left is to blame for our incurious culture, I wonder who he bumps into the most at libraries, bookstores, museums, films, etc., where curiosities are most ambitiously met with challenging ideas and inspirations. I bet he's in the minority...which may be what bugs him.… (mehr)