33rd International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2017 American Political Science Association Meeting,August 31-September 3 San Francisco, CA David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear…
The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom. Thomas G. West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Thomas…
Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents. Patrick J. Deneen. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. The current political polarization in the country today can be…
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…
The Eranos Movement: A Story of Hermeneutics. Edited by Tilo Schabert. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2016. Reviewing this volume is no small task. It has all…
Things Turned into Sounds: Aristotle The first voice we ought to listen to is that of Aristotle. At the beginning of his text Peri hermeneias (On Interpretation)…
In the first season of AMC’s Mad Men, advertising executive Don Draper gives a presentation to some prospective clients from Kodak. The clients are looking for a…
Mad Men: The Death and Redemption of American Democracy. Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moore. Lexington Books, 2016. It’s been a decade since Mad Men premiered on…
No one would dispute that Shakespeare was interested in political questions. Much of his theatrical output focuses on medieval monarchs and ancient Roman civil wars. Plays such…
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. Andrew Moore, Lexington Press, 2016. Andrew Moore’s book, Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics, is bold…
The Philosopher’s English King: Shakespeare’s Henriad as Political Philosophy. Leon Harold Craig. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Anyone interested in studying Shakespeare as a philosopher-poet…
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). Human nature encompasses both the rational and the emotional. Modern political science has segregated these two…
According to Nobel Prize Winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges is “the most important thing that happened to Spanish literature in modern times, and one of…
Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges. Alejandra Salinas. Lanham MD, Lexington Books: 2017. This volume explores the writings of Jorge Luis Borges in respect…
Norman Maclean was not my best teacher, but he was certainly the most memorable. And he taught truths not usually found in texts. Without talking much about…