Pierre Manent on Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss
On the advice of your preparatory class teacher, you met Raymond Aron. How did the special relationship you had with him begin? First of all, I probably…
A Critique of Eric Voegelin’s Christianity
When Eric Voegelin published Order and History: I-III in the 1950s, Christian philosophers and theologians claimed him as one of their own. These first three volumes were…
How to Cure Your Boredom
Acedia and its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire. R. J. Snell. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2015. Acedia and its Discontents is wonderful book to…
The English Quest for the Concrete
The Growth of European Nationalism The development of political ideas after 1700 becomes increasingly parochial in the sense that problems that are specific to the several national…