released 10/2/2018

Columnist David Brooks — joining a big chorus of chagrin — has called the Kavanaugh hearings “a complete national disgrace.” But should we really be surprised that political theater has followed this script? Ken Myers looks at texts from Alasdair MacIntyre and Wendell Berry (with some help from Oliver O’Donovan) to suggest that the logic of modern political theory makes such depressing spectacles inevitable. And they will probably get worse.

19 minutes

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