Did Strauss himself think of contemporary Orthodoxy as more than an absurd possibility?
The road to a conservative-nationalist new dispensation must first pass through a reappraisal of the legacies of Nixon and Moynihan.
Rights, for good or ill, are only as secure as the public’s long-run commitment to them.
How fear consumed a once confident and creative ideology
More than one “neo” ideology drives America to wars that traditional ethics would avert.
Matthew Rose surveys the post-liberal scene’s inspirations
A new volume tries to rehabilitate American patriotism without American patriots
Two philosophers hash out the contradictions of classical liberalism
How the Confederacy fit in with European struggles for nationhood and republicanism
A new biography of Thomas Paine seeks to restore religion to its rightful place in the Age of Revolution and the life of a controversial Founding Father.
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