In 1863, John Henry Newman wrote: “From first to last, education … has been my line.” The same can be said about Michael Oakeshott, and about his foremost American protégé, Timothy Fuller. Fuller arrived at Colorado College as a young man in 1965, and since then he has taught political philosophy to generations of students. Many of those students, in turn, have become professors and public intellectuals who continue to write and teach in the Oakeshottian tradition, which is to say, in the classical liberal tradition of political thought. Now, at last, we have a volume of Fuller’s essays about Oakeshott, aptly titled Michael Oakeshott on the Human Condition.
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