Procrastination: Not To Worry, I Still Have Six Days
Each of the seven deadly vices, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Lust, Envy and Gluttony, has had defenders. Wrath, or Rage is very chic. Even Sloth can get…
Pierre Manent: The Past, Present, and Future of Political Life in the West
The Metamorpheses of the City: On the Western Dynamic. Pierre Manent with Marc LePain, trans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. One of the most intriguing…
Why Democracy Requires God
[Through seeking] the divine, the loving reaching out beyond ourselves toward the divine in the philosophical experience and the loving encounter through the Word in the pneumatic…
The Political Meaning of Common Sense
Common Sense: A Political History. Sophia Rosenfeld. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Sophia Rosenfeld’s Common Sense aims to show the crucial but heretofore little noticed…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as Writer, Philosopher, and Political Thinker
The Other Solzhenitsyn. Daniel J. Mahoney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2014. Daniel J. Mahoney’s The Other Solzhenitsyn is a much needed reappraisal of the…
The U.S. Electoral College
[Election] law, however, is not an autonomous sphere with its own laws of justice. It does not have the purpose of giving every ethnic group with special…