Today’s political discourse is rife with the prognosis that liberalism is in trouble, evidenced by the rise of anti-liberal and post-liberal thought, each of which maintains that…
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Maybe the most influential text written…
Can we arrive through reason at knowing what is the reason of state? For if unreason should come into conflict with reason, we shall then reason and…
Introduction St. Augustine’s City of God offers a vision of harmony that serves as a lasting contrast with the conflict model of reality espoused by the Dialectical…
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was not a philosopher in the Socratic sense of the European tradition of Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Kant and Hegel. While…
On February 5, 1794, Maximilian Robespierre, a provincial lawyer turned revolutionary, addressed the French National Convention as the leader of the twelve-man Committee on Public Safety. The…
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…
For Baudelaire, being an artist cannot be separated from the kind of person one is. And in ‘Benediction’, the first poem in Flowers of Evil, after the…
Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism. Beibei Guan and Wayne Cristaudo. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. Walter Benjamin was one of the…
Self-Sealing Fallacy Some modern militant atheists like to claim things like “religion ruins everything.” Or that the planet would be so much better off without a belief…
In Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity), Ludwig Feuerbach's 1841 scathing criticism of Christianity, the German anthropologist pontificates on the nature of divinity by attributing…
. . . . In the case of economic theory we have again a science of phenomena operating with certain assumptions such as a rational, economic individual,…
Part 1 of the Audio Recording may be listened here. Eric Voegelin: You have something about history. May I ask you just for a piece of paper…