The Priority of the Person Event
Please join David Walsh and John von Heyking next Friday, May 7 (2pm ET), as they discuss his latest book, The Priority of the Person. Details below…
Please join David Walsh and John von Heyking next Friday, May 7 (2pm ET), as they discuss his latest book, The Priority of the Person. Details below…
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career thirty years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…
The Constitutional Convention and Political Participation in the Early Republic Thursday, April 29th | 2 pm ET Webinar Event Join us on Thursday, April 29th at 2pm…
Our stark choice is indeed as Nietzsche puts it, says René Girard. It is a choice between Dionysus and the Crucified: between the Biblical concern for the…
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theme of romantic desire prohibited by the parents is treated in a very deliberate way. When parents, in opposition, stand…
“Michael” writes: “Freedom and determinism are empty categories; they cannot be employed to distinguish any sequence of events from any other.” Logically, this could be because all…
The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission. George Weigel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020. In his 2015 biography of the late…
Upon settling down to take in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics it takes little more than a cursory glance to discover a noticeable point of contradiction between the earlier…
Lee Trepanier's interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, Solzhenitsyn scholar and author of the “Foreword” to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones: Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994, translated…
Tragedy and History: The German Influence on Raymond Aron’s Political Thought. Scott B. Nelson. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century.…
"Stephen Leacock was part of that curious and perhaps indigenously Canadian species which has been given the name of “Red Tory” - Alan Bowker "Many writers have…
Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles.[1] It began at historiography`s beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus the “father of…
The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom. Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In…
Senator Grassley's Letter In late January, 2020, Senator Charles Grassley (Republican, Iowa) sent a letter to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG).…
Higher education has long been the focus of controversy: specifically, the disproportionate opportunities afforded to members of varying socio-economic classes. While one demographic argues for free and…