Introduction: Europe’s Refugee Crisis “[Our] great universities simply cannot afford to remain islands of affluence, self-importance and horticultural beauty in seas of squalor, violence and despair.”[1] Thus…
Hannah Arendt is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Her influence in the field of political thought is enormous, and shows no sign of…
It is well known that Heidegger actively supported the Nazis during the first years of their power. In 1933 he became rector of the university in Freiburg,…
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…
Schmitt’s eagerness to enter in the antechamber of power and to advise those with decision-making power was evident by his decision to move from the University of…
Eric Voegelin barely escaped Austria with his life in 1938, after the Gestapo had failed to confiscate his passport.[1] Having given anti-Nazi lectures and published two books…
Klaus Vondung. The Pursuit of Unity and Perfection in History. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2020. The Pursuit of Unity and Perfection in History collects…
Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles.[1] It began at historiography`s beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus the “father of…
Upon the creation of a unified Germany in 1871, an intense debate began that would continue to this very day. What would the exact nature of the…
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric Kurlander. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Reading Eric Kurlander’s Hitler’s Monsters awoke my memory…
Please see Tilo Schabert's two lectures, available on YouTube. His lecture on "The German Revolution 1989." It is available here. His lecture about the 2017 French Presidential…
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:…
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…
A Critical Assessment[1] Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles. It began at historiography's beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus…
The Protestant Reformation has been cited by scholars of European history as contributing to the rise of nationalism, individualism, capitalism, and secularism but not to the development…