Michael Oakeshott
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Michael Oakeshott’s Life of Reflection June 26, 2024
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, an...
Remembering Michael Oakeshott November 14, 2022
Irving Kristol knew his enemies. In 1956, when the godfather of neoconservatism was an editor at Encounter magazine, he recognized Michael Oakeshott as one of those enemies: a man whose ideas were antithetical to his own. Oakeshott, then a 55-year-ol...
Andrew Sullivan's Propulsive Journalism August 27, 2021
In 1995, Andrew Sullivan appeared on C-SPAN to discuss his book Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality. In the comparatively low-wattage world of Washington, his conversation with Brian Lamb proved a star turn. Over three hours, he was dro...
