Mansfield Among the Moderns
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. is among America’s foremost political scientists. He has translated the works of key thinkers from Niccolo Machiavelli to Alexis de Tocqueville, and written...
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Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. is among America’s foremost political scientists. He has translated the works of key thinkers from Niccolo Machiavelli to Alexis de Tocqueville, and written...
Yet the argument of Book V is something quite different. Over hundreds of pages, Smith patiently shows why both peace and a tolerable administration of justice are historically rar...
In this piece, I will be taking seriously the wisdom of Pericles and Aristotle; one was one of the founding statesmen of Athenian democracy, and the other one of Greece’s greatest...
Jeffrey Polet, The Acton Institute The term "political theology" took an unfortunate turn in the early part of the last century. Prior to then it had a rather august history. Sain...
Politicians often claim superior integrity, morality, or influence. Yet time and again, they prove incapable of rising above the established standard for exercising power by a syst...
There is a view that morality has no place in politics. Politics is about who can do what to whom, and therefore it is about power and power struggles.
As a young political science and philosophy major I learned about types of governments. Among these is the plutocracy—rule by the wealthy. I recall thinking, in my young anarchist...
American foreign policy has derived much of its power and sense of direction from liberal ideals.
They are not an abstract theory that you only learn in college or law school, but the basic premises of our Constitution and government that you can learn from the people all aroun...
A little electoral studies wonkery for Sunday morning contemplation.
Scholastic thinkers like Cardinal Cajetan, St. Robert Bellarmine, and Francisco Suárez developed what is sometimes called a “transmission theory” of governmental authority. It hol...
The United States is a constitutional republic founded, in principle, on the separation of powers and the rule of law. However, its conduct in certain international affairs is ofte...
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, one of the few economists in the world equally at home solving stochastic dynamic optimization problems as with sociological theory and history, has an...
Postliberalism may seem like a contemporary movement, with champions like Vice President JD Vance and Patrick Deneen. But the tradition of liberal skepticism reaches much further b...
As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marxist-inspired philosophies ever...
This famous adage, popularized by philosopher Joseph de Maistre, sparks deep debate. It emphasizes the collective responsibility of the governed. However, it often oversimplifies d...
As Mark Lilla, a recovering Straussian, once remarked, they [the Straussians] were like craftsmen building a house brick by brick on a foundation that Leo Strauss had laid. But th...
One of my lasting lessons from political science is that every major society has a pyramid structure of wealth and power. The United States is no exception. However, the UnitedRead...
IN A 1982 letter to Michael Foot, Tony Blair wrote: ‘Reading Marx irreversibly altered my perception of society.’ Karl Marx has enjoyed a glorious reputation among many of the wor...
Philosopher Omri Boehm argues persuasively that universal human dignity is anathema to identitarian politics.
The historian Helena Rosenblatt traces the roots of liberalism and the values that many have forgotten.
Of all kinds of governments, the most difficult kind of government is constitutional democracy. This is because it requires full participation of the citizens. When practiced accor...
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