Into the Abyss: A Semester with Nietzsche
My first encounter with Nietzsche I cannot recall. The story I like to tell myself, or at least would like to tell you, is that it happened…
Technocracy Comes to Campus
Anyone who has set foot and paid some small amount of attention in a college classroom knows one thing: the true moments of learning are often indefinable,…
A Good Look at Evil
A Good Look at Evil. Abigail L. Rosenthal. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1987. Pulitzer Prize-nominated, Abigail Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil is an exploration…
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Thinking in Public examines what constitutes the public intellectual and…
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. Bonnie Honig. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. Public Things examines how public practices, space, and objects can form a collective…
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution. Ganesh Sitaraman. New York: Knopf, 2017. “The number one threat to American constitutional government today is the collapse of the…
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class. Leslie G. Rubin. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Today the middle class in the United States…
Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History
Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History. Matthew Simonton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Between tyranny and democracy there was oligarchy in the classical world. However, the…
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break. Ostap Kushnir. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Since the end of the Cold War, Ukraine has neither transition to…
The Dystopian World
The Man in the High Castle. Philip K. Dick. New York: Mariner Books, 2012. The Man in the High Castle. TV Series created by Frank Spotnitz and…
The Resentful Politics of Populism
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller…
The Wipe Out of the White Working Class
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2013. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Robert D. Putnam. New York:…
The Collapse of Christian America
The End of White Christian America. Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. R. R. Reno. Washington D.C.:…
What’s the Matter with the Left?
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thomas Frank. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. Listen, Liberal; Or, Whatever Happened to the People?…
Sorting Out Who We Are
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. The Big Sort. Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America…