Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum
by Jeff Polet My freshman year in college a professor placed in my hands G.K. Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, and my life was never the same after. I didn’t at the time recognize that the book was an exercise in apologetics, but I was thoroughly enchanted by both the mode and substance of argumentation. Later, I …
by Jeff Polet I had at colleague at Hope College who was extremely liberal. I liked him very much, and we bonded early over our mutual love of classical music and opera — sort of the Scalia and Ginsburg of the college. Because we had developed a friendship with each other we also developed a …
by Jeff Polet Our Heritage series typically focuses on American writers, but every now and then I am reminded of something from the non-American past that I think interesting. This happened to me this weekend as I was re-reading parts of Aristotle’s Politics, and I happened upon the section where he asks a very simple …
