The Wisdom of the Ancients
“The west does not die when nations do.” In his classic 1991 tome Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Marxist philosopher Frederic Jameson presents…
“The west does not die when nations do.” In his classic 1991 tome Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Marxist philosopher Frederic Jameson presents…
“So you want us to accomplish something you couldn’t by doing it the same way you did it?” – Jared Kushner “I never planned to write…
Sometimes I imagine the following scene: I am seated at a sidewalk café in D.C., having dinner with a friend. Suddenly a troop of Wokesters show up. …
“President Biden stands before a divided Congress and a polarized nation,” the pundits declared minutes leading up to the president’s entry into Congress. It seems like any…
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
Today 188 countries of the world have a constitution. This suggests that without a constitution no nation can aspire to be successful or even survive in a…
George C. Leef. The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time. New York-Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2022. With the silencing of…
To read Jan Patocka, the tragically understudied Czech philosopher, one needs to peel back the accretion of post-Cold War rhetoric to fully understand him. Patocka sees modern…
Joseph T. Stuart. Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. The English historian…
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…
Sir Thomas More’s Platonism transpires most vividly from his humbling message that the establishment of justice on earth would require the abolition of humanity. Not that certain…
In May 2017, a group of European conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris. They were brought together by their common concern about the state of European…
When the French Revolution abolished the Estates General and appeared to usher in the Enlightenment virtues of egalitarianism, the accepted liberal historical view was that the age…
What is postliberalism? The term is bandied about nowadays, generally as a pejorative to describe so-called “illiberal” conservatives and rightwing personalities who supposedly have political views antithetical…
David Dyzenhaus’s essay in Aeon, “Democracy or apocalypse,” was written under the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, though the author is not interested in that…