Knight errant, moçambicano, would-be philosopher-poet. In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen. PhD @uchicago. Professor @HillsdaleInDC. Opinions are mine alone.
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Pascal would not be surprised by the nihilism, vengefulness, and love of destruction on display in Paris this week. His apologetic reveals the restless self-love in every ideological project and vindicates the Christian promise of uniting justice and force.
How can France best recover its faith?
Hillsdale in D.C. professor Dr. Luke Foster reviews Pierre Manent’s new book, "Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference: Pascal’s Defense of the Christian Proposition," in @PublicDiscourse.
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Entre Lola-Fleur, jeune idéologue bourgeoise qui ne connaît rien de la vie mais donne des leçons à tout le monde et Jehmima née au Congo, arrivée en France à 5 ans, ayant vécu dans 10m2 et devenue cheffe d'entreprise, inutile de vous dire ma préférence !
Between de Gaulle’s formative years and the 1960s, the Western mind jettisoned a rich vocabulary for culture: religion, mores, ethnos, Cicero’s “common fatherland that embraces all of loves” that he alludes to here. The upshot is that his warnings became unintelligible.
🇫🇷 20 octobre 1959, le Général de Gaulle se confie à A. Peyrefitte sur l'intégration des Algériens : « On peut intégrer des individus, des familles, des petits groupes ; et encore, dans une certaine mesure seulement ; et ça prend des générations. On n'intègre pas des peuples, avec leur passé, leurs traditions, leurs souvenirs communs de batailles gagnées ou perdues, leurs héros. Vous croyez qu'entre les pieds-noirs et les Arabes, ce sera jamais le cas ? Vous croyez qu'ils ont le sentiment d'une patrie commune, suffisant pour surmonter toutes les divisions de races, de classes, de religions ? Vous croyez qu'ils ont vraiment la volonté de vivre ensemble ?
L'intégration, c'est une entourloupe pour permettre que les musulmans, qui sont majoritaires en Algérie à dix contre un, se retrouvent minoritaires dans la République française à un contre cinq. C'est un tour de passe-passe puéril ! On s'imagine qu'on pourra prendre les Algériens avec cet attrape- couillons ?
Avez-vous songé que les Arabes se multiplieront par deux puis par cinq, pendant que la population française restera presque stationnaire ? Il y aurait deux cents, quatre cents, six cents députés arabes à Paris ? Vous voyez un président arabe à l'Élysée ? »
This article grew out of teaching Hamlet to and discussing it with @HillsdaleInDC students!
What can Shakespeare’s Hamlet teach us about justice and political leadership?
Hillsdale in D.C. professor Luke Foster explores this question in his recent article, “Between Private Vengeance and Public Justice: Hamlet’s Fragmented Magnanimity,” published in Literature.
Foster examines Hamlet’s pursuit of honor and revenge—and why a leader’s ambition must be guided by the common good.
Read the article: mdpi.com/2410-9789/6/3/22
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Marc Andreessen on why cities ended up with $3 million homes, public housing, and no middle class
"There's a French geographer who has the best analysis on this, a great book called Twilight of the Elites. If you replant the commanding heights of your economy on knowledge work, you're going to slam basically all economic growth into the cities"
"The cities become a magnet for two kinds of people. The highly educated elite who can afford $3 million houses, and then public housing. Who's squeezed out is the entire middle class. If you're a cop or a firefighter and you work in Palo Alto, you can be commuting 3 hours both ways just to have a house and afford a family"
"You look at the cities and there's lots of dogs, very few kids. You can't buy a house, you can't have a family. You've ejected the middle out of the cities into the countryside, but you've deindustrialized, so there's no new economic activity happening in the countryside"
Marc Andreessen reveals why housing, health care, and education keep getting more expensive while everything else gets cheaper
"There's basically three components to the American dream. A house near great job opportunities, great health care for you and your family, and sending your kids to good schools"
"If you disaggregate the economy over the last 25 years, everything that technology touches basically collapses in price. Television sets, computer games, anything with electronics in it. But if you chart housing, education, and health care, the prices of those things are skyrocketing"
"The government restricts supply, zoning laws and university certifications. And then the government responds to the political pressure caused by the rising prices by subsidizing demand. And of course, if you subsidize demand and a fixed supply, you get skyrocketing prices"
I’m honored to have my writing on Aristotle featured by the Jack Miller Center, as JMC highlights the rich sources of the American Republic’s understanding of public right.
New scholar article 🗞️ ✍️ 📄
Luke Foster (@HillsdaleInDC) discusses Mark Blitz's new study, Aristotle’s Political Philosophy, and how Aristotle's works constitute the fundamental grammar of the human political endeavor. Read the full article in @CivitasOutlook from @gurueluke:
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Those busiest in the active life are often the most serious about the contemplative life.
More from @gurueluke:
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What is politics? How do we think and argue about it? For @CivitasOutlook, I review an important new book that will benefit all who teach Aristotle. But Aristotle should not be our only master for understanding politics. For that we need love as well as cold analysis.
Mark Blitz's new study, 'Aristotle’s Political Philosophy,' correctly identifies the Nicomachean Ethics, the Politics, and the Rhetoric as the fundamental grammar of the human political endeavor.
New from @gurueluke: civitasoutlook.pulse.ly/vudo…
Mark Blitz and @UNDPress's new book, "Aristotle's Political Philosophy," lays out the fundamental categories for analyzing the city. But true understanding requires loving the city as well, I argue for
@CivitasOutlook.
The approach to the study of politics I outline here is that of Academia Tocqueville (academia-tocqueville.org): rooted, patriotic, at once active and contemplative, seeking to understand one's own tradition through going outside of it.
What Grok thinks the world would look like if I were in charge. Very 19th-century classical revival. But I am not sure why it put Washington in a French uniform!
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A reminder that when the French state decides to circumvent the regulatory straightjacket it has set on itself and the country, France can do remarkable things very quickly
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I never grew up in the US, but the patriots at the @ClaremontInst taught me what love of country looks like. The education I've received from fellows, alumni, and scholars is second-to-none, as is their courage in the line of battle. Their blood is fet from fathers of war-proof.
In which I respond to the insinuations and hysteria exhibited in Erick Erickson’s “expose.”
Last week, blogger @EWErickson maligned the Claremont Institute, one of our donors, and a few of our fellows and alumni, relying substantially on guilt-by-association smears and innuendo.
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And accordingly, in a very rare gesture, Congo retained his name for the capital city after independence!
I wrote a thing yesterday about noblesse oblige being part of the ethos of the historic European aristocracy. (accelerationist.substack.com…)
When the French explorer Savorgnan de Brazza saw the slavery and slave-trading going on among African tribes in the Congo, he had a giant French flag put up outside his camp and decreed that, by the authority of France, any slave who touched that flag was henceforth free.
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C’est avec une grande émotion que je verrai le Saint-Père célébrer la Messe sur le lieu même de l’exécution du roi Louis XVI.
Samedi, la France communiera dans la paix d’une cérémonie ouverte à tous. La place de la Concorde deviendra ainsi un lieu de réconciliation pour les Français.
Aujourd’hui, assumant pleinement cet héritage catholique reçu de mes pères, je suis fier de participer à cet événement porteur d’Amour et d’Espérance.
Retrouvez ma tribune à cette occasion dans le Journal du Dimanche.
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