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ALEXANDER DUGIN: Critique, Confrontation, and Chrysalis
A Review of His Political Thought translated into the English Language On the twentieth of August, at approximately 21:45 hours, the report of a car bomb pierced the night of Bolshie Vyazyomy,...
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Economists: the High Priests of Liberalism
“How many economics classes did you take?” asked Laura Ingraham, longtime Fox News host, to Elizabeth Breunig, noted Catholic socialist, on The Ingraham Angle. It’s not a question most people, even...
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Resuscitating Old Fashioned Social Liberalism
For the last several years liberalism has seemed at risk of being added to the endangered ideologies list, perhaps soon joining the ranks of such downtrodden world views as feudalism and classical...
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Biden’s Challenge and Opportunity
“Throughout our history, whenever free societies have been under assault, the Democratic party has rallied the world to liberty’s defense.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan In the year since Russia launched...
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A Liberalism Worth Saving: What’s Missing From the Debate Over Liberalism
On October 19th, 2022 four leading intellectuals gathered with Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Beha for a discussion on classical liberalism. While all agreed with the premise that liberalism is...
View ArticleJohn Locke, Shaftesbury & Drag Queens
Many post-liberal critiques of Anglo-American democracy demonize John Locke as its sinister founder. For them, there’s a straight line from Locke’s stress on individual rights to drag queen story hour...
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A New Vital Center?
I met Patrick Deneen almost twenty years ago at Georgetown University, where he was instrumental in launching the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding. It was obvious then that he was a very...
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In Defense of Cold War Liberalism
When the interpretation of history becomes divorced from the facts of history, frightening political prescriptions capable of upending society are likely to follow. Samuel Moyn’s recently published...
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Christian Realism vis-à-vis the Liberalism of Fear: Thoughts on Samuel Moyn’s...
“Liberalism has only one overriding aim: to secure the political conditions that are necessary for the exercise of personal freedom”, so the legendary Harvard political theorist Judith Shklar claimed...
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What “Democracy” is America Defending?
When asked why we should support Ukraine in its war with Russia, “to defend democracy” is a common answer. But what does it really mean to defend democracy? From one perspective, “defending...
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