Welfare Rights as Socialist Manqué
Christianity, Democracy, Socialism: Reconsidering Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1848 “Speech on the Right to Work.” On September 12,...
View ArticleUnderstanding 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...
View ArticleTelling 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTelling 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...
View ArticleTaking 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.
View ArticleFrance’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...
View ArticleFrance’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...
View ArticleA 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.
View ArticleThe Peronist Pope Francis: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney
Daniel Mahoney discusses Pope Francis's approach to the papacy and world politics.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleWhen 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.
View ArticleBeyond 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...
View ArticleAnti-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...
View ArticleWelfare Rights as Socialist Manqué
Christianity, Democracy, Socialism: Reconsidering Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1848 “Speech on the Right to Work.” On September 12,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleRevisiting 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...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleThe 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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