Law of Nature or Law of Reason? A case for Hungary’s Historical Constitution
Today 188 countries of the world have a constitution. This suggests that without a constitution no nation can aspire to be successful or even survive in a…
Loss of Meaning, Loss of Aims: Necessity, Leadership, and Lurking Totalitarianism in Western Culture
The criticism of European modernity and its intellectual developments have long been haunting the Western intellect. Perhaps the first most vigilant observer of encroaching modernity was Pascal,…
Between Wisdom and Knowledge: The Politics of Creativity in a Post-Communist World
The Statement of the Problem The key to understanding the nature of government is to be found in the old debate between realists and political utopians of…
The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Political Realism and Political Philosophy
If you have the privilege, or assigned job, teaching a course on the "History of Political Thought," you might think that most students of political science would…
The Conquest of Eros: Tyranny Revisited as the Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns
Tyranny: A New Interpretation. Waller R. Newell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. In recent years whenever I am obliged to teach the history of European political…