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David Walsh is professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America and is the author of Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, and The Modern Philosophical Revolution, The Growth of the Liberal Soul, and After Ideology.

May 7, 2018|

’68 and Intimations of the Transcendent

by David Walsh|

In response to: France’s Psychodrama of 1968

"Choses vues en mai," "Things Seen in May," by Jean Helion, 1968-69 (alamy.com)
We ought to admit that the rudderless youth were not entirely mistaken in perceiving the blankness of the upbringing their elders had provided for them.

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The Ironic Legacy of France’s Failed Revolution

by Alan Charles Kors

The disillusionment of 1968 created space for a richer diversity of serious thought.

Les Soixante-Huitards: Sex, Drugs, and Lame Poster Art

by Theodore Dalrymple

“The events” served to fix in the popular mind the romantic notion that adolescence is the high point of any human existence.

France’s Psychodrama: Daniel Mahoney Responds to His Critics

by Daniel J. Mahoney

Nihilism is as much of a threat as totalitarianism ever was.

August 3, 2017|communism, Descartes, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Martin Heidegger, Politics of the Person

The Personal Is Always Political: A Conversation with David Walsh

by David Walsh|

Who is the human person and has modern philosophy given us a truncated understanding of the person? Those are some of the questions put to philosopher David Walsh as we discuss his latest book, Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, in this edition of Liberty Law Talk.

May 15, 2017|Edmund Burke, Empire and Revolution, French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Richard Bourke

The Principled Statesman

by David Walsh|

There is no doubt that Burke studies have received a new point of departure in Richard Bourke’s masterful Empire and Revolution.  This work of surpassing scholarship enables us to place Burke fully in the context of the political history through which he lived.  In many ways it is an authoritative demonstration of the Cambridge School approach of examining ideas in context, only here the connection is even more integral than is generally the case.  Burke not only developed his ideas out of the political setting in which he found himself, but shaped that setting through the sheer intellectual force of…

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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