Our Man in Paris: Why Tocqueville Still Matters
Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer…
Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer…
That is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood. Roger M. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. In This is Not Who We Are, Smith…
What We Must Demand For Our Democracy to Survive. What Commitments Should Presidential Candidates Make in the Writings Prior to the 2020 Election. Adam Strum and Stephen…
National identity has been a preoccupation in the tradition of Russian political thought since Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725), who led a cultural revolution in Russia that…
Introduction This piece is written as a response to the use of John Locke’s political thought to justify recent resistance movements in the United States, with some…
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition. John Courtney Murray, S.J. London: Sheed & Ward, 2005. Reading John Courtney Murray’s famous work, We…
The one teaching of Willmoore Kendall’s toward which all his early thought tended and from which radiated all his later thought was this: America’s vindication of the…
The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Political scientists and political theorists are understandably fixated on the…
The political rhetoric of the Founders of the American Republic has received scant attention from scholars. The relative neglect is understandable. On the one hand, the very…
Historians of the Constitutional Convention have agreed that there were divisions among the delegates, but have disagreed as to what those divisions were and what underlays them.…
The controversy over originalism-the question whether judges, in interpreting the Constitution, should be guided by the original intentions of the Framers or by some other standard-has generated…
The current presidential selection system is broken. The way to fix it is by returning to strong parties at the national, state, and local levels. The 2004…
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. Joel Kotkin. New York: Encounter, 2020. “History never repeats itself. Man always does.” In…
Did America Have a Christian Founding? Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth. Mark David Hall. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2019. The argument over what it means to…
Books Discussed in this Essay: Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The…