Word: jeffersonianism
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...more viable than Jesse Jackson," said Harvey Himel, a student at SPH. "He's a real Jeffersonian...
Percy's specialty is the gentle chiding of a generation that came of age blowing its mind and ended up blow-drying its hair. Trivializing disturbs him: "The rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
...conservative editors vary in approach from the scholarly, even pedantic, to the strident or downright offensive. The label conservative seems to embrace as many viewpoints on campus as in society at large, ranging from Jeffersonian calls for states' and individuals' rights to Moral Majority attacks on feminism and abortion, and even some racist-tinged critiques of affirmative action. But the editors, diverse as they are, trade notes and have come to constitute an informal network. That delights Columnist William Buckley, a major patron of the Dartmouth Review and a hero to most of the rightist student editors. Buckley...
Oliver said that the program is devoted to the Jeffersonian ideal of a link between "the world of ideas and the world of affairs. The idea here is to show that humanities indeed have some thing to contribute" to public affairs...
Greek ideas in politics are still applicable in today's society. Vermeule said, adding that "Jeffersonian democracy is entirely based on his perceptions of Greek ideals...