Restoring the Idea of a University
Politicizing the classroom corrupts the academic virtues encouraging us to forget what the idea of the university is, what is its animating spirit, what fundamental experience it…
Restoring the Idea of a University
Politicizing the classroom corrupts the academic virtues encouraging us to forget what the idea of the university is, what is its animating spirit, what fundamental experience it…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Reader
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Catholic University of America Press, 2018. This is a most welcome, often profound inquiry into the…
Hobbes in the Context of Modern Political Thought As Interpreted by Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
The thought of Thomas Hobbes is a living force in philosophic reflection on modern politics. Yet many insist that an era of political philosophy, roughly beginning with…
Hume and the Politics of the Enlightenment
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment. Thomas W. Merrill. Cambridge University Press, 1915. Thomas Merrill of American University introduces this book with reflections on the difficult relation…
The Tilo Schabert Thesis
The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism & Political Philosophy. John von Heyking and Thomas Heilke, eds. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America, 2013. This…