John Locke and the Uncivilized Society
John Locke and the Uncivilized Society. Scott Robinson, Lexington Press, 2021 Many commentators have sounded the alarm over the level of political polarization among the American…
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide. Kieran Setira. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017 Kieran Setira has written an accessible, yet thoughtful book on the existential questions of midlife.…
Review of Game of Thrones and The Theories of International Relations
Game of Thrones and The Theories of International Relations. Laura D. Young and Ñusta Carranza Ko. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Laura Young and Ñusta Carranza…
Rediscovering Liberalism: A Review of Larry Siedentop’s Inventing the Individual
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. Larry Siedentop. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Liberalism is rightly considered to be an ideology based primarily on…
Salvation Through Science? Bacon’s New Atlantis and Transhumanism
The interplay between politics and science is certainly not a new phenomenon, but astonishing scientific advances in medicine and technology during the 20th century, and into the…
Review of The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film. Kimberly Hurd Hale. Lexington Books, 2016. In The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in…
Eric Voegelin’s New Science of Politics: Revisited
Nearly sixty-five years ago, Eric Voegelin delivered a series of lectures at the University of Chicago under the sponsorship of the Walgreen Foundation. These lectures were subsequently…
The Nature of Revolution
Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, from Primal to Final. Paul Caringella, Wayne Critaudo, Glenn Hughes, eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012. Revolution is a term that has…
To Believe or Deceive? Sir Francis Bacon, Religion, and the New Science
The Religious Foundation of Francis Bacon's Thought. Stephen A. McKnight. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. As we enter the second decade of the 21st…