Eagle Review & Comment for May 23
New Light On Liberalism
The talk this week by bestselling author Amity Shlaes, a longtime Heights resident, packed the Heights Casino’s sumptuous Governors Room as part of the club’s Speakers Program. As fans and readers of Shlaes, the assembled group—including Shlaes and her husband Seth Lipsky, of course – may have become part of the largest aggregate IQ total to fill that room in many years. Notwithstanding the distant screech of sneakers on the squash court floors upstairs, profound discourse and thought was definitely stirring. Shlaes fosters a unique and penetrating re-evaluation of political and economic thought about how our country functions—or does not.