Jouvenel made a signal contribution to political wisdom in modern times, and united what is best in classical conservatism and liberalism.
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Reviews of Liberty Fund's classic publications in the tradition of free and responsible self-government.
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Jacques Barzun’s Teacher in America illustrates the triumphs of good teaching and the failures of poor instruction.
Liberty Fund's Education in a Free Society offers a look at the promise and perils of American higher education.
Taylor believed the rhetoric of economic and national greatness—"borrowed from the fallacious European theories" of empire—was deadly to a republic.
A new compilation of an old British debate sheds light on what makes armies safe for liberty.
Mises matters today because his method enables far more than a utilitarian calculation of the whole in building a just society.
Without taking into consideration a metaphysical make-up of human beings and the world that surrounds them, comprehending political life will be difficult.
We have lost the notion of what it means to be a philosopher by confusing it with the job, the work of being a professor of philosophy.
No strictly political community brings political salvation.
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Despite Calhoun’s flaws, he was able to use his long career in tumultuous times to develop rare insight into the nature of constitutional government.
Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.
In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.
Quigley’s concerns point to the unease, if not fear, that lay behind the optimism and talk of vigor that characterized America during the Kennedy era.
The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman stands among the classics of Anglo-American intellectual history.
Forrest McDonald, described The Creation of the Presidency by Charles C. Thach, Jr. as “an unprecedented achievement."