God Saw all that He had Made, and Behold, It was very Good
The line from Genesis 1:31, “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good” is quite a challenge to faith. How easy it…
Reviving the Teaching Office: Moses, Paul, Wesley, and Reverend Wallace
You call me Teacher and Lord--and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you…
Bret Easton Ellis Shatters the Identarian Mold
How does a novelist fit into our currently polarized and divided world? Ideally, he has artistic “disinterestedness” that allows him to use his powers of observation in…
Can a Conservative Be Progressive?
Conservatives have always been portrayed as backward and unenlightened simpletons. This is true especially today because intellectual conservatives are being sidelined by identitarian and populist conservatism. This…
Do We Learn From History?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This line will most likely sound familiar to every reader. It has been paraphrased countless times…
Wisconsin and the Future of Free Speech in Education and the Republic
Please join us online for a talk on Nov. 5 at 2.30-3.45 PM with Professor Donald Downs. Dr. Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science…
American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
Renew Membership for EVS & APSA
For the 2021 Eric Voegelin Society Meeting, please be sure to register at the American Political Science Association website. Also please remember whether you are becoming a…
The Demon in Democracy
Ryszard's Legutko's lecture, "The Demon in Democracy," at the Abigail Adams Institute is available here.
Globalization and Our National Anomie
Globalization has become an ineluctable reality. It’s in economics, politics, technology, business, and virtually every other facet of our modern lives. The way in which we interact…
Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics
Clare Graves is an American psychologist who started teaching in the 1940s and retired in 1978. His “emergent cyclical theory of human development” began by asking people…
Agency and the Criminal Justice System: Agency for Me, but Not for Thee
An agent is the locus of decision-making. If determinism is true, and there is no free will, then no person is “deciding” anything. Agency would be an…
Prisons and Punishment
Gnosticism imagines that the disorder and conflicts of earthly existence can be overcome with gnosis – special knowledge; insight and learning. Ruth Gilmore Wilson, a prison abolitionist…
The Burden of Proof
The phrase “burden of proof” has to do with who it is who needs to back up his claims with evidence; the one who needs to prove…