From Philosopher Kings to Philosopher Professors: Against the Relativists
Famously, Socrates caps off his preliminary account of the beautiful city in the Republic with a description of the primary condition – by his own admission a very controversial condition – by which a truly beautiful and just city could come to be, namely the rulers who can bring…
The Shock of Philosophy: On Josef Pieper
From images of moral depravity on television and online to the perpetually bad-news news cycle to the blunders, improprieties, and worse of celebrities and politicians, the vile and offensive seem to be so commonplace that one might reasonable wonder if anything can be shocking anymore. We are evidently still…
Association for Political Theory Call for Papers Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 4, 2019
The Association for Political Theory Annual Conference University of California, Irvine October 24th-26th, 2019 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London) and Neil Roberts (Williams College) The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members, independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference…
Roger Caillois is a Better Guide to the Sacred Foundations of the West than Giorgio Agamben
The mystery of the liturgy coincides totally with the mystery of operativity – Giorgio Agamben In my opinion, Giorgio Agamben is the most important contemporary European theorist. Political theology in the anarchist tradition, to which Agamben subscribes, has for its goal the exorcism of theology from political economy.…
"Unless philosophers rule as kings in their cities . .…
University of California, Irvine
October 24th-26th, 2019
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London) and
Neil Roberts (Williams College)
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members, independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference to be held October 24th-26th, 2019, at the campus of the University of California, Irvine. We will consider papers…
- Giorgio Agamben
In my opinion, Giorgio Agamben is the most important contemporary European theorist. Political theology in the anarchist tradition, to which Agamben subscribes, has for its goal the exorcism of theology from political economy.
Though Agamben is a leftist, his argument is in the spirit of Eric Voegelin –…
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science examines the political community as Aristotelian regimes rather than the Machiavellian state. For Aristotle, the regime is the political community that emerges out of discrete and heterogeneous parts, like the households, while the state for…
There may yet be further surprises for me as time passes and I think back upon it. But let me share with you where I am on this right now. First, I was invited by the Dean of our local Episcopal Cathedral in Boise, ID, to offer a brief theological workshop…
The purpose of this book, William Thompson-Uberuaga tells us at the beginning, is the recovery of the “one heart” that unites what Pope John Paul II called the “two lungs” — the Eastern and Western Christian traditions— of the one universal Christian community. In…
"In 1950, married couples represented 78 percent of households in the United States. In 2011, the US Census Bureau reported, that percentage had dropped to 48 percent . . .
[In 2014], for the first time, the number of unmarried American adults…
This hesitation, I believe, is due to recent populist uprisings that have associated their improbably successful campaigns with the re-establishment of greatness. US President…
From Philosopher Kings to Philosopher Professors: Against the Relativists 
The Life of the Scholar 
The Use of Force 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
What is a Miracle? 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
The Shock of Philosophy: On Josef Pieper 
Association for Political Theory Call for Papers Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 4, 2019 
Roger Caillois is a Better Guide to the Sacred Foundations of the West than Giorgio Agamben 
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science 
Eschatology, Geography, and the Advancing Jesus Movement 
Interview with William Thompson-Uberuaga About His Book, “Your Kin-dom Come: The Lord’s Prayer in a Global Age” 
Constructive Dialogues: Understanding Immigration