Leo Strauss on Nazism: A Theologico-Political Interpretation
Leo Strauss was one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, in large part because he undertook a systematic reexamination of the meaning of…
Antifascism, True and False: A Review of Paul Gottfried’s “Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade”
Paul Gottfried, Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Viii + 205pp. In 1944, George Orwell asked :”Why, then, cannot we have…
Analytical Marxism and the Meaning of Historicism: Reflections on Kai Nielsen and G. A. Cohen
In retrospect, analytical Marxism seemed like a good idea at the time. This new Marxism, which emerged in the late 1970s, promised to be “analytical,” strengthening the…
Hannah Arendt: Philosopher of Politics, History, and Faith
Hannah Arendt’s immigration to the United States in the early 1940s reminds me of a comment made by a professor of a post-WW2 American history course that…
History as Progress or Reversal? The Mythical Prognostications of Kojève and McLuhan
Introduction The “End of History,” as the Marxist philosopher Alexandre Kojève argued, signified the triumph of rational atheism in which man makes himself God and abolishes the…
Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil Theology
Eric Voegelin published his essay “The Oxford Political Philosophers” in 1953, a time of prosperity in Britain, which had gradually recovered from the ravages of World War…
Churchill and the Athens-Jerusalem Conflict Over Friendship
I want to commend Professor John von Heyking for writing a truly refreshing and original analysis of Churchill’s understanding and practice of friendship as the “key to…
Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil Theology
Eric Voegelin published his essay “The Oxford Political Philosophers” in 1953, a time of prosperity in Britain, which had gradually recovered from the ravages of the Second…
The New Tribalism of the Electric Age
Making Sense of the Alt-Right. George Hawley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. In a 1969 interview with Playboy magazine, the Canadian philosopher of media Marshall…
The Conservative Rebellion
The Conservative Rebellion. Richard Bishirjian. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2015. In The Conservative Rebellion, Richard Bishirjian warns that a “visionary politics” which extols a vision…
Havers Replies to Lincoln Review
Professor Glenn Moots concludes his review on the critical note that my study of Lincoln’s usage of Christian charity will be valued only by readers who need…
Lincoln, Charity and “We, the People”
They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant…
Churchill: Oblivious to the Weight of History
Churchill. Paul Johnson. New York: Viking, 2009. Anyone in search of a short yet useful introduction to the life of Sir Winston Churchill will find it…