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Guest Post: “An Expanded Vision of ‘Western Heritage’: Why It Matters for Education”

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September 3, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: David Green Ahmanson

The solution to the narrow focus of classical liberal arts education is to preserve their time-tested methods, but broaden their subject matter in both geography and time beyond ‘the Western Tradition’ as conventionally understood. In this piece, I summarize thousands […]

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Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama

  • Politics
January 13, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

My favorite political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, seems to have a blind spot about the character of bureaucrats and public employees, failing to see that they are just as ‘patrimonial’, a word he uses a lot, as any other interest group.  […]

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Insights from Francis Fukuyama on the Problem of Crony Capitalism

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  • Culture
January 7, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This essay summarizes some of Francis Fukuyama’s historical perspective and insights on the problem ‘patrimonialism’ and its effect on society.  I briefly suggest some ways to address patrimonialism, and also identify factors that shape patrimonialism in California and elsewhere. According […]

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The USA: First World, Third World, or Western World?

  • Culture
April 8, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The United States has always been somewhat ambiguous about whether its primary loyalty was to the European Western World or to the Western Hemisphere (i.e., the Americas).   The Founders thought of themselves as upholding the rights of Englishmen, which they […]

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Which Western Civilization? We’re on our Third One. 

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March 8, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

These days many people are trying to defend ‘Western Civilization’.  Yet, at the moment, Western Civilization seems to be moving into Version 3.0, and the form it will take is not fully clear.  So what, actually, are they trying to […]

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Manners, Customs, and Languages: The Spontaneous, A-Rational Kingdom

  • Culture
July 17, 2018December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This particular kingdom is also not one of the three that evangelicals regularly talk about, but in the training of missionaries and evangelists, we pay a lot of attention to it!  ‘Missiology’ includes endless classes on culture, and how we […]

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Authoritarianism is a Hot Subject Nowadays

  • Culture
July 22, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a lot of intellectual fuss about ‘authoritarianism’ nowadays, because of the rise of Donald Trump and what appears to be the overthrow of traditional ‘fusion’ conservatism.  A long essay by Amanda Taub in “Vox” is the most thorough […]

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Richard Nixon: A Precedent for Donald Trump?

  • Politics
June 12, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurred to me that a possible precedent for Donald Trump might be none other than Richard Nixon.  Now I think that Nixon was a far more intelligent man than Trump, and, for all his sins, a person of superior […]

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Face, Respect, the Sin of Gossip, and ‘Freedom From Speech’

  • Culture
February 8, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The debate about ‘freedom from speech’ has accelerated.  Greg Lukianoff, author of the Freedom from Speech broadside, has cooperated with Jonathan Haidt, an author I have quoted on Blue Kennel to write an article for The Atlantic criticizing the concept of […]

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Some General Observations about China: Languages, Romanizations, Air Quality, General Appearance

  • Miscellaneous
September 4, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am late getting out this post, which should be my last about China. China does not feel like Europe.  It feels like America in some parallel universe.  I had always hated the science fiction tales on TV that had […]

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