Friedrich Nietzsche’s name is often associated with the term “nihilism.” For many, Nietzsche provides a particularly acute articulation of the nihilistic perspective. For these interpreters, Nietzsche rips…
Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss need no introduction to students of philosophy, especially students of political philosophy. Although these three figures are well-known and well-read, have…
The Eric Voegelin Institute hosted a three part webinar series on Eric Voegelin and his interlocutors. This series included commentary on the relationship of Eric Voegelin with…
As the cracks and fissures within our society become visible, we see increasing debate about our society’s foundational principles of classical liberalism, and the man at the…
Ann Ward. The Socratic Individual: Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. What can account for the renewal of interest in…
Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai. Edited by Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student. New York: Kodesh Press, 2022. Let’s begin with a story. As an undergraduate…
Why would the story have been left untold? Because it was absurd? Or…because it did not fit the deep-seated expectations, the lingering prejudices of our times? The…
"The philosophies of this world are blind to true divinity—the living God”. This introductory proposition summarizes a traditional indictment of Christianity as represented most notably by Saint…
Since the behavioral revolution in the 1960s, political science has increasingly defined itself as the empirical, quantifiable study of politics.[2] Modeled after the natural sciences, behavioralism is…
By looking at the historical paths of Greece, Israel, Christianity, and Islam, Brague’s The Law of God compares each civilization’s conceptions of law and divinity. For the…
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,…
One of Leo Strauss’ most famous contributions to the study of modern political theory is his known idea of the “three waves of modernity”, in which Strauss…
Few words seem to be as familiar to us in the Western world as the nebulous term “crisis.” We hear it incessantly and for many years. Of…
An expanded version of six lectures Leo Strauss delivered at The University of Chicago in October, 1949, under the auspices of the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation, the…
Until Thomas Hobbes boldly claimed that his Leviathan was the first true work of political science, most political philosophers had long believed that it was Socrates who…