For those who are interested, but unable to make, Steven Hayward's before the Athenaeum this evening, I suggest you peruse the video interview he did with, Uncommon Knowledge's host, Peter Robinson on the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
I must say that I have been looking forward to his talk before the Athenaeum, but I am a sad bit disappointed that the two speakers will effectively lionize two influential, but deceased, Republicans. This generation has no memory of either Buckley or Reagan.
That is not to say that we should forget the greats, but it is a shame not to bring the current thinkers of conservatism who are working in dark times to apply the formulations of the old to the politics of today. In a sense, conservatism on Claremont McKenna's campus is becoming too insular, with its constant (and welcomed) invitees from National Review and the think tank community.
Of course, in a serious college, we would invite other thinkers, on the Left as well as on the Right, rather than the usual silly "peace scholars," of the wishy washy notion of human rights and international law, professional feminists, Latino activists, drag queens, and wannabe thinkers.
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