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He says they should act more like the elite in Victorian England at the end of the 19th century, who helped “re-moralize” their society (for more, see the groundbreaking work of the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb). In speaking about what concerns him...
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Murray and other conservatives often seem to assume that the decline of the traditional family has terrible implications for society as a whole. This is, of course, a longstanding position. Reading Murray, I found myself thinking about an earlier...
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Mr. Murray and other conservatives often seem to assume that the decline of the traditional family has terrible implications for society as a whole. This is, of course, a longstanding position. Reading Mr. Murray, I found myself thinking about an...
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Mr. Murray and other conservatives often seem to assume that the decline of the traditional family has terrible implications for society as a whole. This is, of course, a longstanding position. Reading Mr. Murray, I found myself thinking about an...
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Wallace's objections. Shermer further suggests that Darwin offered a scientific gold standard of "testable hypotheses." The problem is, practically none of them have been verified when actually tested. Most are just-so stories and best guesses for...
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Neither Lawrence nor Nietzsche, Kierkegaard nor Eliot, for instance, were lambent democrats hungry for majority rule. For similar reasons Scialabba is unmoved by the religious cant of Philip Rieff or the Victorian nostalgia of Gertrude Himmelfarb; he...
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No one can credibly claim that Britain’s decline went unnoticed or undiagnosed. Indeed, at times, the country seemed to be suffering from a bad case of civilizational hypochondria. Britain’s example is relevant to America’s current crisis because, as...
About Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator in relation to university education. Full Article
