Published October 2023
If the only tool you have is a hammer, they say, everything looks like a nail. Cognizant of this not-so-old saying, I have tried to limit the occasions for dragging into these columns my hobbyhorse, which is the demise of the honor culture, both in America and in the West generally. But sometimes that absence, the gaping hole in our more general culture that distinguishes it from all others in history, cries out for notice. Now is one of those times, for it is through this honor-shaped hole in our culture that the Left is driving all the social and political energies that are reshaping Western culture and all its institutions.
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Mr. Bowman is well known for his writing on honor, including his book, Honor: A History and “Whatever Happened to Honor,” originally delivered as one of the prestigious Bradley Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, and republished (under the title “The Lost Sense of Honor”) in The Public Interest.
Mr. Bowman is well known for his writing on honor, including his book, Honor: A History and “Whatever Happened to Honor,” originally delivered as one of the prestigious Bradley Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, and republished (under the title “The Lost Sense of Honor”) in The Public Interest.
