• Liberalism: The Cause of, and Solution to All of Life’s Problems

    Liberalism: The Cause of, and Solution to All of Life’s Problems

    by Lance Abbott People have been railing against and misrepresenting liberalism almost since its inception. And yet, despite centuries of criticism and countless illiberal attempts to undermine or redefine it, liberalism has produced more…

  • Iran, Venezuela, and the State of the Media

    Iran, Venezuela, and the State of the Media

    Polyhymnia COO joins Max Borders on Underthrow to discuss international things, including recent events in Iran and Venezuela. There’s no way of knowing where any of this is going to end up, but things…

  • College Work

    College Work

    Who decides should be obvious. Andrew Jason Cohen I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact…

  • We Must, and Can, Cool Political Rhetoric

    We Must, and Can, Cool Political Rhetoric

    Richard Lorenc writes in the Boston Herald: “Although political conflict is inevitable, we each have the power to steer disagreements away from name-calling and rhetorical head-butting. If we want the activists and politicians to…

  • Art and the Meaning of Life

    Art and the Meaning of Life

    Robert Edward Gordon In one way or another, the issue of finding meaning in life lies in the innumerable choices we make everyday. Shakespeare’s existential “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet…

  • Meet Blake Scott Ball

    Meet Blake Scott Ball

    Blake Scott Ball has done us the honor of becoming a fellow at Polyhymnia. You can get to know him a little bit here. As it turns out, he is a pretty interesting and…

  • Considering Mr. Scorcese

    Considering Mr. Scorcese

    Apple TV+ subscribers now have the opportunity to peer into the complex mind of filmmaker Martin Scorcese in a five-part docuseries. And readers now have the opportunity to see what Rebecca Miller learned as…

  • The Two Sentences that Yield Human Respect

    The Two Sentences that Yield Human Respect

    Polyhymnia Chief Operating Officer James R. Harrigan and economist Antony Davies discuss the two most important sentences in history, one political and philosophical, the other commercial. These two sentences, taken together, provide the bedrock…

  • 30 Good Minutes with Jay Nordlinger

    30 Good Minutes with Jay Nordlinger

    Polyhymnia Senior Fellow Jay Nordlinger joins John Daly on the DalyExpress podcast to discuss, among other things, the Renew Democracy Initiative, free speech consistency, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, the Young Republicans…

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