Readers we hope will be pleased to learn that the Foundation for Constitutional Government—which produces the Conversations with Bill Kristol that The Scrapbook has been touting for a couple of years—has just launched a series of websites called Contemporary Thinkers. The aim is to make more easily accessible the works of pioneering thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The series opens with 30 individuals whose writings on politics, society, and government profoundly influenced their contemporaries and continue to shape public debate today. They include many with whom you may be familiar—including Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Kass, John Rawls, Leo Strauss, Irving Kristol, Allan Bloom, and Thomas Sowell—and others that you will want to familiarize yourself with. And there are additional sites and thinkers to come.
Presented in a catalogued, searchable format, the sites feature original essays on the ideas and influence of each thinker, curated bibliographies of their writing, video and audio content, and links to other online resources. The sites are user-friendly and provide portals to thinkers whose writings are very much worth reading. They can all be found via your tablets, mobile devices, and computers, at contemporarythinkers.org.
