Kurt Hofer | The European Conservative

Digging for Spanish Gold

Kurt Hofer June 8, 2023

Robbins’ study of the Golden Age might be called a work of skepticism in that it “refuses to create a unitary narrative, a single interpretive vision” of the period, but instead dissects it piecemeal under a microscope.

Ukraine Can’t Save the West from Itself

Kurt Hofer May 13, 2023

Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves an illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.

The American New Right’s Message to Europe: Limits, not Liberty

Kurt Hofer March 19, 2023

In a country that’s been binge-drinking at the font of liberty for a half-century, the American New Right is betting that the hangover is setting in.

Adrian Vermeule’s (un)Common Good: A Legal Philosophy for a Postliberal World

Kurt Hofer March 5, 2023

By asserting that the common good does exist and can be defined and applied, Vermeule contests the cultural Left and libertarian Right’s chimera of a values-neutral jurisprudence.

Occasional Dialogues: Claire Rydell Arcenas interviewed by Kurt Hofer

Kurt Hofer January 6, 2023

In this episode of our ‘Occasional Dialogues’ series, Kurt Hofer interviews historian Claire Rydell Arcenas, the author of America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life. They discuss the impetus behind writing the book, Locke’s place in contemporary political life, and the ‘New Right’ critiques of Locke.

The Fight for the New Right

Kurt Hofer October 13, 2022

A constant undercurrent of the conference was the oscillation between equally eloquent articulations of despair at the present and an intrinsically Christian hope for the future.

Devouring Our Young: The West’s Chronos Complex and the Rise of the New Right

Kurt Hofer September 29, 2022

The victory this week of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni fits into this story as well. Her words—and perhaps, in the future, by the grace of God, her party’s actions—are nothing less than a full-throated disavowal of the West’s Chronos Complex.

Towards A New Fusionism:
Postliberals, Claremonsters, and American Conservative Consensus

Kurt Hofer July 3, 2022

Can the lived conservatism of the Postliberals find common ground—and common political cause—with the universalist notions of natural right, justice and equality espoused by the Claremont School? On this question, I believe, hinges the fate of a new conservative fusionism updated to meet the challenges of our time.

The Problem of Christian Safetyism

Kurt Hofer June 25, 2022

Undeterred by his trials and compelled by curiosity, the Apostle Paul wears no mask; he mutes and stifles no truth that might advance the Gospel—no matter the cost.

A New Framework for Freedom

Kurt Hofer May 22, 2022

If a new framework for freedom is to emerge in the West, it must be recognizable. The stories of anchored freedom must be told, and they must be disseminated with the same adamance in mass culture, whenever and wherever possible, as the Boomer myth of freedom.

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Digging for Spanish Gold

Ukraine Can’t Save the West from Itself

The American New Right’s Message to Europe: Limits, not Liberty

Adrian Vermeule’s (un)Common Good: A Legal Philosophy for a Postliberal World

Occasional Dialogues: Claire Rydell Arcenas interviewed by Kurt Hofer

The Fight for the New Right

Devouring Our Young: The West’s Chronos Complex and the Rise of the New Right

Towards A New Fusionism:
Postliberals, Claremonsters, and American Conservative Consensus

The Problem of Christian Safetyism

A New Framework for Freedom

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