For Human Flourishing
At a time when most see capitalist liberalism and socialism as the only possible ordering ideas for human societies, and the former as the de facto selection…
The Tyranny of Localism?
According to a recent survey, those who are happy value community involvement.[1] A mere 12% of Americans now claim to be very happy, the lowest reported number…
On Property and Stewardship: A Review of Mark T. Mitchell’s “Plutocratic Socialism”
Mark T. Mitchell. Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class. Front Porch Republic Books, 2022. In his aptly entitled…
Life in the Middle: A Review of Jarosław Duraj’s “The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin”
Jarosław Duraj. The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin. Peter Lang Press, 2021. Jarosław Duraj has penned an important study of Eric…
John Locke and Contemporary American Resistance Movements
Introduction This piece is written as a response to the use of John Locke’s political thought to justify recent resistance movements in the United States, with some…
Voegelin on John Locke
Voegelin and Pneumopathology While Strauss’s and Macpherson’s arguments are both coherent and plausible, neither offers a deep or fully acceptable account of Locke’s moral priorities. Caution driven…
William Blount and the Old Southwest: America’s First Impeachment
This evening I have been asked to analyze the role of William Blount in our nation’s founding. This is a timely assignment, and one which I am…
The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political Environment
Eric Voegelin’s 1956 essay “Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy” is of tremendous worth to the careful analyst of 21st century American political thought. It…
Voegelin Today
The goal of this volume is to demonstrate the relevance of Eric Voegelin’s works from the 1950’s and early 1960’s to the political atmosphere of the early…
Review of Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2019. David Whitney’s excellent critique of what he…
The Landscape of the American Political Battlefield
An ongoing debate in American political science regards the dispositions of the factions within American society towards one another; some scholars argue that a culture war obtains,…
Mass Communication and Pluralism
Eric Voegelin’s 1956 essay “Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy” is of tremendous worth to the careful analyst of 21st century American political thought. It…
Gnostic Wars: Islamic Terrorism, Positive Toleration, and How the Ideological Dynamics of the War on Terrorism Are Advantaging the Terrorists
Introduction The American debate regarding the policy needed to combat the dangers posed by immigration from nations who are currently hotbeds of Islamic radicalization is presently being…
Redefining Rebellion: John Locke’s Slight of Hand
John Locke took the concept of rebellion which had a rich history in political philosophy and deftly assigned to it a new meaning that was useful for…