Political Theory

August 16, 2021

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Yuval Levin

A Nation Divided Over Unity

Ideas such as covenant, crucible, and creed once promised to bind a fractured nation. They all failed. Is there any hope for a divided America?
July 12, 2021

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Ryan Shinkel

Lessons of the Caesars

The Caesars hungered for spiritual achievements that merely institutional accomplishments could not satisfy, paving the way for Christianity.
June 21, 2021

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Ofir Haivry

What Is Anglo-American Nationalism?

One must go back to the Hebrew Bible and the Middle Ages to understand fully what nationalism in the Anglo-American tradition truly is.
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?

Political Theory

A Nation Divided Over Unity

Lessons of the Caesars

What Is Anglo-American Nationalism?

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

The Nicene Myth

So You Want to Be Joan Didion . . .

Virtue and the Patriot President

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