The Constitutional Convention and Political Participation in the Early Republic Thursday, April 29th | 2 pm ET Webinar Event Join us on Thursday, April 29th at 2pm…
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. Helen Andrews. New York: Sentinel, 2021. There is a literature on the famous “baby boomers,”…
From “deplorables” to “enemies of the people”—this is a trajectory with which we Chinese are all too familiar. Demonizing your political opponents is not an end in…
In recent days, as they learned that the political establishment, the mainstream media, Big Tech, and other elites had conspired to get the presidential election result they…
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. Joshua Mitchell. New York: Encounter Books, 2020. While the United States has enjoyed material prosperity, its…
It is strange to read back what I had written four years ago and see how little has changed in our political climate except for the cast…
Disunited Nations. Peter Zeihen. New York: Harper Business, 2020. The 19th century philosopher G.W.F Hegel famously said, “The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with…
In their debates and considerations regarding the formation of an official constitution, the Framers of the United States Constitution were searching for ways to maintain a strong…
The Tragic Flaw of the Rule of Law[1] The events of January 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill evoke Hegel’s famous phrase that the Owl of Minerva flies…
Please see John von Heyking's interview about rioters storming the U.S. Capitol. It is available here.
God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's Case Against the American Revolution. Gregg L. Frazer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Twitter, one hardly needs…
In the first Canto of his Inferno, having projected himself into a dream of his own making, Dante is confronted with a she-wolf (lupa), ultimate incarnation of…
Most Americans take for granted that democracy is an absolute good. If it can be said of an idea or a program that it promotes equality, Americans,…
Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, warned us that there is nothing new under the sun. At least in terms of the current crisis in Greece,…
An analysis program on the U.S. elections on Scheizer Radio und Fernsehen with Claudia Bruhwiler and Martin Dahinden is available here.
