F. H. Buckley is more interested in knights and fairy tales than in philosophical systems.
Scott B. Nelson
The Roman philosopher’s fragile trinity of natural law, popular sovereignty, and liberty represents a pinnacle of classical republican thought.
Tacitus shows that real virtue is not something we self-attribute but a trait of character recognized by others.
The Austrian School founder, Carl Menger, could speak of the common good and patriotism without falling into socialism, nationalism, or protectionism.
Dante argues that judgment consists in knowing and pursuing the good. Those who err in either respect are not free.
Scott B. Nelson is a teacher, independent scholar, and the director of the Vienna Symposium, an institute based in Vienna, Austria, devoted to seminars on classic texts. His latest book, co-authored with Matthew Edwards, is Cicero, Politics, and the 21st Century. He can be contacted at [email protected].