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This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism's survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum's exhibition of Jenny Lind is a masterful combination of female elegance and female potency in the subsistence realm. John Muir's Yosemite Valley is surely exquisite, but only after a rigorous liberal education prepares for its experience. And Harley Earl's 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a dreamy expressionist sculpture, but with a practical 265 cubic inch V-8 underneath. Not that American beauty has been uniformly pragmatic. The 1950s are reconsidered for having temporarily facilitated a relaxation of the liberal survival priorities, and the creations of painter Jackson Pollock and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman are evaluated for their resistance to the pressures of pragmatism. The author concludes with a provocative speculation regarding a future liberal habitat where Emerson's admonition to attach stars to wagons is rescinded. ; https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1208/thumbnail.jpg

Machiavelli scholarship is prolific but claustrophobic. Even though chapter 18 of The Prince advises the aspiring leader to emulate both lion and fox, commentators ignore or devalue the lion and focus on the fox. Machiavelli is thereby depicted as a champion of cleverness and deception, and not much else. This article takes up the lion. It argues that Machiavelli's lion is not a simple and violent beast, but is rather a complex tutor that complements clinical and lonely foxiness with crucial injections of virility and community.

Machiavelli scholarship is prolific but claustrophobic. Even though chapter 18 of The Prince advises the aspiring leader to emulate both lion & fox, commentators ignore or devalue the lion & focus on the fox. Machiavelli is thereby depicted as a champion of cleverness & deception, & not much else. This article takes up the lion. It argues that Machiavelli's lion is not a simple & violent beast, but is rather a complex tutor that complements clinical & lonely foxiness with crucial injections of virility & community. 123 References. Adapted from the source document.

Athletics can be a window to broader cultural issues, but so can the way in which athletic events are transmitted to fans. In this article, the author detects a rising arrogance among sports announcers that relate to American culture in general. Announcers no longer privilege the games they broadcast. Instead, they claim a status equal to the participant, and in doing so, they pollute the purity of the games they observe. The epitome of this practice occurs on ESPN, where glibness—the main symptom of the new arrogance—is overwhelming. This is the last straw. The glibness has been creeping into academics for a long time, and now, it seems to have tainted baseball, the last bastion of purity.