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…
Henri Lefebvre and the Urban Revolution
A sociologist born at the turn of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre is a figure whose writings shed light on questions pertaining to rural life versus urban…
Unearthed History: The War of The Vendée
Something about the French revolution makes it a timeless topic: It encapsulates the totality of our human condition. That condition is our inability to fully measure the…
The French and American Revolutions Revisited
It is often said that the American Revolution resonated across the pond and inspired the French to rebel and liberate their country in a similar, heroic fashion…
Review of Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune: Pantagruelism, Politics, and Philosophy
Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune: Pantagruelism, Politics, and Philosophy. Timothy Haglund. London: Lexington Books, 2019. What form of knowledge can a writer, best known for his satirical…
John Locke on “The Reasonableness of Christianity”
The question this essay posits might seem somewhat straightforward: What is meant by the term “reasonable” when Locke described Christianity by this term in his 1695 work,…
Nicolás Gómez Dávila: The Nietzsche From the Andes
The common retort by opponents of the idea of the canon of Western literature is that it is preferential to just one dimension of human history and…
James Burnham’s and Daniel Bell’s Critiques of Globalization and Liberalism
We like to say that every idea, every thought, every emotion—no matter how novel—has already been conveyed by someone, somewhere; such is the nature of the “universality”…
Globalization’s Liberalism
It is not possible to separate globalization from liberalism. Without the political foundation that liberalism provides, a project of such scale would have been unfathomable. But just…
T.S. Eliot’s “The Fire Sermon”: Of Memory and Salvation
“These things I do within, in that vast chamber of my memory." From St. Augustine’s Confessions again. The collocation of these two representatives of eastern and western…
Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind
Matters of faith, philosophy, and theology were the center of intellectual debate at the beginning of the modern era. A previous age of traditions and institutions was…
Leo Strauss vs. Edmund Burke
A known critic of historicism and contextualism, Leo Strauss published his seminal essay, ‘What is Political Philosophy?’ in 1957 in the Journal of Politics and introduced a…
Trekking the Course of History and Human Nature through the “Indirection” of Literature: Hannah Arendt’s use of ‘Billy Budd’ to understand the French Revolution and the Role of Government
There are many ways to arrive at an unknown destination. Some rely on a map and seldom diverge from the path they have planned out while others…