Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence
The founding fathers of modern republicanism had no qualms about appealing to the crucial role of the “founder” or “legislator” in establishing and sustaining free and lawful…
Caught Between East and West: Solzhenitsyn’s American Exile
Lee Trepanier's interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, Solzhenitsyn scholar and author of the “Foreword” to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones: Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994, translated…
The Idol of Our Age: Dr. Daniel J. Mahoney at Abigail Adams Institute
Please see Daniel J. Mahoney's lecture, "The Idols of Our Age," at the Abigail Adams Institute, Harvard University. The YouTube link is here.
Truth and Lies: Reflections on Roger Scruton’s Notes From Underground, An Anti-Totalitarian Novel Par Excellence
Notes from Underground. Roger Scruton. Beaufort Books, 2014. Through the publication of Gentle Regrets (2005) and Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016), we have learned a great…
1917: Darkness Falls
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. The Bolshevik coup d’état of October 25…
The Quandary of the Two Pope Francises
The December 2016 issue of Quadrant includes my reflection on Pope Francis’s contribution to Catholic social and political reflection. I write as both a Catholic and a…
Liberating Logos: Reason, Conscience, and the Future of the West
For more than a century and a half, the specter of secularization has haunted the West. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Max Weber famously spoke…
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in the Age of Extremes
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in the Age of Extremes. Aurelian Craiutu. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2017. Aurelian Craiutu is a political theorist and…
Judging Communism and All Its Works: Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago Reconsidered
Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble—and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s villains stopped short…
Two Critics of the Ideological “Lie”: Raymond Aron and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The incomparable force of Solzhenitsyn is connected with his person, to what defines his message: the unconditional refusal of the lie. It can happen that one cannot…