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A Good Introduction to Political Philosophy
by Lee Cheek Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction by Michael J. White In a lengthy and readable manner, White (Arizona State University) provides a capable introduction to major political...
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Plato’s Apology and the Gorgias: Yearning for Political and Spiritual...
H. Lee Cheek by H. Lee Cheek, Jr. The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the importance of Plato’s commitment to rational discourse in the Apology and Gorgias. Both dialogues chronicle the transfer...
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The Federal Idea
by Wilfred M. McClay The concept of federalism has been one of the principal casualties of modern American history. One has to look far and wide to find American historians and political scientists who...
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“Giving up” on the Constitution?
Bruce Frohnen by Bruce Frohnen In a recent editorial in the New York Times, Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown Law School, argues that our political system is broken...
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Crusades for Democracy & American Foreign Policy
Paul Gottfried by Paul Gottfried In recent years a heated debate has erupted about American foreign policy and about what moral purpose should inform our conduct of international relations. While...
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Faith and Freedom
Joseph Pearce by Joseph Pearce Liberty itself must be limited in order to be possessed.- Edmund Burke Anarchy, Freedom’s own Judas, the vile prodigal License who steals the gold of liberty- Oscar Wilde...
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An Exemplary Study of Nietzsche & his Political Thought
by H. Lee Cheek A Review of William H. F. Altman’s Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013). In this imaginative and refined commentary...
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Common Ground: The Founding Era
by George W. Carey The following is an excerpt from Georgetown professor George W. Carey’s indispensable book A Student’s Guide to American Political Thought. A uniqueness attaches to the American...
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Progressives & Conservatives: Is there Common Ground?
Gleaves Whitney by Gleaves Whitney Common Ground between Whom? A lot of people are skeptical about what the Hauenstein Center is trying to do. Seriously now: common ground between conservatives and...
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The Political Thought of Gouverneur Morris
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A Masterpiece of Political Thought: Bryce’s The American Commonwealth
Viscount James Bryce by Mark G. Malvasi The best that E. L. Godkin, the editor of the liberal journal The Nation, could say about United States congressmen in 1874 was that “we underrate their honesty,...
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Edmund Burke’s Legal Erudition and Practical Politics: Ireland and the...
Peter Stanlis by Peter J. Stanlis I. Burke’s Legal Erudition Edmund Burke (1729–1797), was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and even before he graduated from Trinity College in 1749, his father,...
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On the Place of Augustine in Political Philosophy: A Second Look at Some...
James V. Schall, S. J. by James V. Schall, S. J. “Shall it (the happy life) be that of the philosophers, who put forward as the chief good, the good which is in ourselves? Is this the true good? Have...
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The Political Relevance of St. Augustine
John East by John P. East It is surprising that contemporary political thinking has paid relatively scant attention to St. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo. It may be true, as some say, that we live in...
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A New History of Political Ideas
by Lee Cheek A History of Political Ideas from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Philippe Nemo As the first part of a two volume survey of political thought, Philippe Nemo approaches the field of study...
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The Primacy of Persons in Politics
Thomas Heilke’s and John von Heyking’s edited volume, The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Political Philosophy, explores the nature of political activity by German political scientist,...
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Barry Cooper: Political Philosophy and Empiricism
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Machiavelli: The Prince of Darkness?
In his magisterial Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk tried to put the Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter Reformation in a larger (maybe massive) historical context. The Protestant and Catholic...
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Alexander Hamilton: Conservative Statesman?
The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton, Michael P. Federici, The John Hopkins University Press, 291 pages Toward the end of his work, Michael Federici writes, “It is rare to find books or...
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Washington Puzzled as Putin Doesn’t Back Down
Consider an analogy to get a sense of how Russia might perceive America’s Ukraine policy. It is imperfect of course, because unlike Russia, America has no history of being invaded, unless you count the...
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