The Carl Schmitt Craze
The return of Schmitt is no cause for panic.
Many women think that motherhood and professional life are mutually exclusive—the marriage of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft can perhaps provide an antidote.
Molnar’s presentation of the historical Catholic tradition seems written with today’s challenges in mind.
Strauss revitalized the study of political philosophy and questioned the premises of progressivist historicism.
In this episode of “Occasional Dialogues,” Kurt Hofer interviews Glenn Ellmers. They discuss Ellmers’ new book, populism, political philosophy, and the need for a muscular Christianity instead of “liberalism with hymnals.”
One quibble with Eisenberg’s approach is that, in giving a vivid and political reading of the teachings of these philosophers, he occasionally simplifies them, perhaps out of prosecutorial zeal.
Few contemporary Marxists, and even fewer Catholic theologians, have delved deeply into any likenesses in their worldviews on a theoretical level.
Jesus Christ died unlike he had lived: politically. D. L. Dusenbury urges us to reassess the gospels.
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.
Political friendship comes from the temporary alignment of interests between two peoples. This same principle applies to political hostility. When that is understood, it becomes clear that today’s foe may be tomorrow’s friend.
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