Political Theory

June 1, 2021

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Grant Havers

Reading Hegel Right

When we think conscience, individual freedom, and moral duty, should we think modern political philosophy, or the Bible?
March 8, 2021

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David Martin Jones

Anne Applebaum’s Debt to Adorno

The word “authoritarian” is thrown around a lot, more often for melodramatic reasons than truly philosophical ones.
February 8, 2021

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Jeff Polet

Did America Have a Founding?

Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.
January 25, 2021

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Samuel Gregg

A Civilizational Foreign Policy

The idea of the “West” virtually vanished in American foreign policy post-9/11. One author says it’s time to bring it back.
January 4, 2021

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Daniel J. Mahoney

Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence

Realism without moral purpose has misled modern statecraft, which should follow instead the wisdom of Cicero and the examples of Churchill and de Gaulle.
December 7, 2020

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Bradford Littlejohn

America Among the Nations: Our Debt to Vattel

Why nationalism doesn’t mean Manifest Destiny or heartless realpolitik.
November 16, 2020

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David Gordon

Ideas and Their Circumstances

Two thinkers come to the defense of America’s founding principles: one from a Randian perspective, the other from a Thomist. Who’s closer to the truth?
October 12, 2020

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Sean McGlynn

Limits of Reason

Despite the Enlightenment’s enthronement of Reason, irrationality has proved intractable. Is it irrational to want to rid the world of irrationality?
October 5, 2020

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Richard M. Reinsch II

Liberty Is Self-Government, Not Rights Alone

Bureaucratic tyranny and judicial usurpation await us when we forget the basic symbols of our political life, as Willmoore Kendall and George Carey warned.
September 28, 2020

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Jason Sorens

The New Secessionism

Is the U.S. too big not to fail? Should states be allowed to secede so their citizens can live free of federal dictates? A new book explores whether the Union is still worth saving.

Political Theory

Reading Hegel Right

Anne Applebaum’s Debt to Adorno

Did America Have a Founding?

A Civilizational Foreign Policy

Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence

America Among the Nations: Our Debt to Vattel

Ideas and Their Circumstances

Limits of Reason

Liberty Is Self-Government, Not Rights Alone

The New Secessionism

Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch

Flannery at 100—and Forever

Religion and Empire, Inseparable

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