The Resentful Politics of Populism
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller.…
The Wipe Out of the White Working Class
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2013. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Robert D. Putnam. New York:…
The Collapse of Christian America
The End of White Christian America. Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. R. R. Reno. Washington D.C.:…
What’s the Matter with the Left?
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thomas Frank. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. Listen, Liberal; Or, Whatever Happened to the People?…
Sorting Out Who We Are
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. The Big Sort. Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America…
Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government
Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government. Joseph Postell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2017. The administrative state was proposed during the Progressive…
Is Anglo-American Conservatism Enough?
I Asking Is Anglo-American conservatism enough? is to presume that we already know what conservatism is and is to acknowledge it as good. But do we know…
The American Experience
I was awarded one of the first Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships and came to the United States from Austria for two years of study at Columbia,…
The Monstrous Politics of Leo Strauss
But as perfect men I regard those who are able to mingle and fuse political capacity with philosophy. Such men, I take it, are masters of the…
The True Form of Governments: Plato, Persons, and Helmut Kohl
All forms of political order are phenomena of movements. The classic typology of political constitutions that Plato elaborated and Aristotle modified to an extent therefore represents both:…
How the World is Made: France and the Reunification of Germany
The Venice Roundtable François Mitterrand related the following episode several times afterward – to SPD [The German Social Democratic Party] president Hans-Jochen Vogel, Spanish prime minister Felipe…
Millennialism, Calling and Mores: Resituating Weber and Tocqueville in America’s Pursuit for Freedom
Max Weber in his sociological classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism addresses the question of what gives birth to rational capitalism in the west.…
Democracy, Language, and Rhetoric
Democracy, Language, And Rhetoric1 “Democracy, Language, and Rhetoric” is a legitimate and important topic. However, upon confronting it, one initially encounters at least three formidable complexes of…
Taxing Religious Leadership
Tucked away in the House version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts—the massive overhaul of the U.S. tax system that has just passed the Senate and is…
How Mormonism Shaped America
To those unfamiliar with the faith, it appears that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is enjoying a moment of fame in American culture: the…