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Welfare Rights as Socialist Manqué

Christianity, Democracy, Socialism: Reconsidering Alexis de Tocqueville’s  1848 “Speech on the Right to Work.”                                                                        On September 12,...

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Understanding the Best Book Ever Written About American Democracy

This new edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Daniel J. Mahoney of Assumption College regarding Alexis de Tocqueville's counsel in Democracy in America on how Americans can best combat an...

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Telling the Truth about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Comes now the great Daniel J. Mahoney, author of penetrating intellectual biographies of Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raymond Aron, and Charles de Gaulle, among other books, to discuss his latest work, The...

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The Peronist Pope Francis: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney

Pope Francis's political, social, and economic thinking has created great consternation, but he has also roused tremendous interest of Catholics and those outside the Catholic Church in his...

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Telling the Truth about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Comes now the great Daniel J. Mahoney, author of penetrating intellectual biographies of Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raymond Aron, and Charles de Gaulle, among other books, to discuss his latest work, The...

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Taking Religion Seriously

Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague. (Benjamin de Diesbach, L'Incorrect)Prominent French thinkers Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague discuss religion, secularism, and the future of life in the West.

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France’s Psychodrama of 1968

"Choses vues en mai," "Things Seen in May," by Jean Helion, 1968-69 (alamy.com)Those who loathe and those who celebrate May 1968 agree it was a defining moment for Western democracy in its late modern...

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France’s Psychodrama: Daniel Mahoney Responds to His Critics

In response to: France’s Psychodrama of 1968 "Choses vues en mai," "Things Seen in May," by Jean Helion, 1968-69 (alamy.com)Nihilism is as much of a threat as totalitarianism ever was. More Responses...

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A Bicentennial Reflection: The Effectual Truth of Marxism and Marx

Monument to Karl Marx in Moscow, Russia (Ekaterina Bykova / Shutterstock.com).Every student of politics and political philosophy must spend time with Marx, even if only to learn what to avoid.

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The Peronist Pope Francis: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney

Daniel Mahoney discusses Pope Francis's approach to the papacy and world politics.

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The Sacred Rites of Humanity: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney

Daniel Mahoney discusses his new book The Idol of Our Age and how humanitarianism corrupts politics and religion.

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When Limitless Relativism Meets Limitless Moralism

(shutterstock.com)James F. Pontuso’s wonderfully accessible book on what happens when virtue and morality are severed from their grounding in nature and reason.

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Beyond the Ideological Lie: The Revolution of 1989 Thirty Years Later

Vaclav Havel at a November 1989 rally during demonstrations in Prague leading up to the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. Image: Mike Abrahams / Alamy Stock PhotoWe in the West need to draw on...

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Anti-Totalitarianism Is Better than Faux Liberalism

In response to: Beyond the Ideological Lie: The Revolution of 1989 Thirty Years Later Vaclav Havel at a November 1989 rally during demonstrations in Prague leading up to the collapse of communism in...

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Welfare Rights as Socialist Manqué

Christianity, Democracy, Socialism: Reconsidering Alexis de Tocqueville’s  1848 “Speech on the Right to Work.”                                                                        On September 12,...

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A Bicentennial Reflection: The Effectual Truth of Marxism and Marx

  It is now 200 years since Karl Marx was born. Especially as self-described socialists gain attention, it is once again time for a reckoning on the Marxism of Marx. Marx famously spoke in 1848 of a...

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When Limitless Relativism Meets Limitless Moralism

  James F. Pontuso’s wonderfully clear, accessible, and provocative book challenges one of the orthodoxies of our time. It has become conventional wisdom that virtue—the fundamental distinction between...

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Revisiting France’s Strange Defeat

France today is a middle-sized power, resigned, perhaps too resigned, to play a diminished role in global, and even European, affairs. If the new Europe has a secret ruler it is undoubtedly Germany, a...

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No Escape from Politics—or Patriotism

Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on vindicating a prudent politics within the GOP. At a moment when our cultural and political elites either celebrated violence, mayhem, and...

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The Persistence of the Lie

As the great anti-totalitarian Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) noted time and again, violence and lies were the twin pillars, the soul-destroying foundations, of...

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