How Do Statesmen Differ from Tyrants?
A review of The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation, by Daniel J. Mahoney.
Making Republics
Pierre Manent is today the leading political philosopher in France. As a young scholar and teacher, while working in Paris as an assistant to Raymond Aron, he read with attention ...
Progressive Racism
One hundred years ago today, Woodrow Wilson brought Jim Crow to the North. He had been inaugurated on March 4, 1913. At a cabinet meeting on April 11, his postmaster ...
Northern Light
In modern American liberal-arts colleges, the Scottish Enlightenment tends to get short shrift. Except in specialized courses focused on the intellectual history of the 18th century at the few institutions ...
Is America Becoming Europe?
In the face of Europe’s all-too-obvious moral, political, and demographic decline, Americans should not gloat or be smug. Unless something changes in the near future, the odds ...