Foreign Languages
Many of our readers have spent time and effort, a lot of time and effort, in reading foreign language texts, and many will have noticed a certain…
Our List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2015
We asked some of our contributors and supporters to send us their recommendations for Christmas holiday readings, as well as their recommendations for the best or most…
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…
Platonism and Augustianism: Two Sources of Voegelin’s Vision of History
The question of history is among the most important, but also the most complex, in the philosophy of Eric Voegelin. I am not certain that he ever…
Pride Goeth Before a Fall: Humility too?
Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue. David Bobb. Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2013. Humility is not exactly a stranger to political life. Perhaps it is…
Albert Jay Nock: The Ultimate Thanksgiving Uncle
Following links and then further links, in the way the internet makes so easy, so interesting, and sometimes more than a waste of time, your columnist came…
Saint Thomas Aquinas on History, Politics, and Law
Sic enim est dispositio rerum in veritate, sicut in esse. - Saint Thomas, Contra Gentiles History: Truth and Being The work of Saint Thomas (1225-1274) absorbed…