Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
Reality is made up of the Absolute and causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described…
Reality is made up of the Absolute and causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described…
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism. George A. Gonzalez. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. With topics ranging from religion to the Vietnam War and everything…
“We’re human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we’re killers…but we’re not…
The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars. Joel R. Campbell and Gigi Gokcek. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. 249 pp. If…
The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics Through Star Trek and Star Wars. Joel R. Campbell and Gigi Gokcek. Lexington Books, 2019. In this book, political…
AIDS-Trauma and Politics: American Literature and the Search for a Witness. Aimee Pozorski. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. American culture and politics has a lot to learn…
The office of the Vice President, FDR’s second veep John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner allegedly said, is not worth a bucket of warm spit. What do vice…
One might not think of the newly-canonized Catholic Saint John Henry Newman as a patron of businessmen or investment bankers. After all, in “Christ the Quickening Spirit,”…
Wilhelm Röpke was an unusual free-market economist working in a difficult time. I believe that we should see him, first of all, as a product of 1914,…
In the autumn of 2013, an American political theorist at Dordt College, Jeff Taylor, published a remarkable book entitled, Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition…
In his critique of William T. Cavanaugh’s classic essay “Killing for the Phone Company: Why the Nation-State Is Not the Keeper of the Common Good” (2004), Thomas…
The concept of the guild, or occupational group, as its modern version has sometimes been called, is one of the most distinctive features of Catholic socio-economic thought. …
There can be no such thing as a “global village.” No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in…
The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings…
With customary severity, Nietzsche counselled his readers, “Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity…