How To Make a Political Extremist
Today, the word extremist in connection with politics is used frequently to a point where it has lost all of its prior meaning, and it is now…
America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It. C. Bradley Thompson. New York: Encounter Books, 2019. C. Bradley…
The French and American Revolutions Revisited
It is often said that the American Revolution resonated across the pond and inspired the French to rebel and liberate their country in a similar, heroic fashion…
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions. Michał Kuź. Warsaw: Lazarski University Press, 2016. Michał Kuź’s Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions is…
Antonio Negri’s Revolutionary Utopianism
Time for Revolution. Antonio Negri with Matteo Mandarini, trans. London. Bloomsbury, 2003. Antonio Negri’s Time for Revolution consists of two shorter works, written twenty years apart,…
Deformations in History from Conversations
The following is a transcript of a discussion held at the Thomas More Institute on November 9, 1970. Participants were Eric Voegelin, Erin O'Connor, Charlottee Tansey, and…
Globalist Revolutionaries
For anyone who wishes to orient himself in today’s politics–or simply to understand something of the last centuries’ history–nothing is more urgent than obtaining some clarity about…
Doctrine, Deculturation, and Renewal
This excerpt is from a conversation between Eric Voegelin and graduate students following a lecture at St. Thomas More Institute in Montreal. His interlocutor was Father Eric…