What is needed now more than ever is the renewal of political reason that remains faithful to the twin goods that are truth and liberty.
Daniel J. Mahoney
Human beings are not citizens of the world but have political obligations that have little to do with the abstraction called “humanity."
Churchill's soul melded together magnanimity and moderation, heroic greatness with solicitude for political liberty.
Jouvenel made a signal contribution to political wisdom in modern times, and united what is best in classical conservatism and liberalism.
Tocqueville refused to idolize a “democratic” social and political ethic that was always tempted to say adieu to political and moral greatness.
Conservatism has hope because many ordinary people are still proud to be patriots, and some remain stalwart people of faith.
For Manent, action is never an end in itself but must always be guided by the virtues.
Trevor Shelley succeeds in recovering a noble and humane political perspective within the horizons of modern liberty and modern politics.
What lessons remain eighty years after France's collapse in the face of the German onslaught?
Chances are the ideological Lie will continue to haunt a modern adventure that has lost its true sense of purpose.
We in the West need to draw on the best anti-totalitarian wisdom, as never before.
James F. Pontuso’s wonderfully accessible book on what happens when virtue and morality are severed from their grounding in nature and reason.
Every student of politics and political philosophy must spend time with Marx, even if only to learn what to avoid.
Nihilism is as much of a threat as totalitarianism ever was.
Those who loathe and those who celebrate May 1968 agree it was a defining moment for Western democracy in its late modern form.
Prominent French thinkers Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague discuss religion, secularism, and the future of life in the West.
