Allen Tate and the Agrarian Mission
Who Owns America? followed I’ll Take My Stand–which had appeared six years earlier–as a more diverse sequel and defense of decentralization. More importantly, Who Owns America? was…
Confronting Nihilism: Towards a Political Theory of the Psalms
I. In contradistinction to the efforts directed towards reviving modernity, several attempts to recover the older understanding of a common moral order, grounded in a disciplined habit…
Recovering Humility
The Limits of Politics: Making the Case for Literature in Political Analysis. Kyle Scott. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. The interrelationship between the social sciences and the…
Kant on History and Culture as a Means to Ethical Evolution
The “Conjectural Beginning of Human History”[1] is Kant’s attempt to recast the creation story of Genesis. The procreative act of Yahweh is cooperative in the sense heaven and…
Plato’s Apology and the Gorgias: Yearning for Political and Spiritual Regeneration
In the Gorgias, like the Protagoras, Socrates must confront one of the great figures of his time, Gorgias of Leontini, who is not merely a rhetorician, but…
Francis Graham Wilson: A Theory of Public Opinion Revisited
Francis Graham Wilson (1901-1976), an eminent political scientist, lifelong scholar of public opinion, and a central figure in the postwar American conservative intellectual movement, was born near…
Recovering Moses: The Contribution of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary Political Science
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to examine the legacy of Moses as a political leader in search of political order. The Mosaic conflict with the…