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James Rogers is associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University, and a fellow with the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He served as editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics from 2006 through 2013.

March 18, 2020|class war, James Burnham, Michael Lind, neoliberalism

Michael Lind and the Forgotten Consumer

by James R. Rogers|

Walmart store in Miami, Florida in 2019 (Chekyravaa/Shutterstock.com).
Lind seems to have a picture in his mind of a more cooperative, more Tocquevillian America, but he endorses means that would be immensely destructive.

March 10, 2020|American Communist Party, communism, Nikita Khrushchev, Vivian Gornick

The Inner Life of the American Communist

by James R. Rogers|

Communists demonstrate in Union Square c. 1931 (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com).
Despite Gornick's good intentions, the painful end of the Communist romance dominates her book from start to finish.

March 3, 2020|Crony Capitalism, Economic Profit, Labor Unions, Normal Profit

Crony Capitalism & the Case for Labor Unions

by James R. Rogers|

Union workers from IBEW Local 613 marching in the Martin Luther King, Jr Day parade in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 2020 (John Pryor/Shutterstock.com).
We don't live in a classically liberal economy, so why should we critique labor unions as if we do?

February 25, 2020|Friedrich Hayek, John Rawls, mixed economy

America’s Governing Philosophy Is Rawlsian, not Hayekian

by James R. Rogers|

John Rawls at Harvard.
Holding up Hayek for abuse allows both right and left postliberals to substitute ideological argument for data and analysis of specific policies.

February 18, 2020|Affordability, Annie Lowrey, Consumer Price Index

Confronting the “Affordability Crisis”

by James R. Rogers|

For sale in San Francisco. (Natasha Kramskaya/Shutterstock.com)
Whether we are trying to account for government failure, or market failure, we shouldn't double count costs.

February 12, 2020|First Things, Neo-Romanticism, R.R. Reno

The Inescapable Particularity of Strong Gods

by James R. Rogers|

R.R. Reno speaks at a James Madison Program event at Princeton University, November 14, 2018 (Image: Princeton University).
The irony is that the problem with Reno’s argument is the problem that Reno identifies as liberalism's fatal flaw, the absence of particularity.

February 4, 2020|antiliberalism, Deirdre McCloskey, Economic growth, Karl Polanyi, Patrick Deneen

McCloskey’s Brief Against Antiliberalism

by James R. Rogers|

Modern antiliberals on both the right and the left must account for the benefits of markets, and recognize our tragic choice.

January 21, 2020|capitalism, Eugene McCarraher, Romanticism

The Return of Utopian Romanticism

by James R. Rogers|

Charging Bull, the famous Wall Street sculpture at Bowling Green in the Financial District, New York, New York (photo.ua/shutterstock.com).
Eugene McCarraher's Enchantments of Mammon seeks to unveil capitalism and recapture a premodern sense of the world as sacramental.

January 7, 2020|Economic growth, income inequality, stagnation

The Faulty Rhetoric of Income Stagnation

by James R. Rogers|

Image: Josh Randall/Shutterstock.com
It makes sense why stagnation rhetoric is so common, but the facts don't support it.

December 10, 2019|Charles Taylor, Liberalism, Martin Luther

Luther and Liberalism

by James R. Rogers|

Martin Luther and other reformers depicted in stained glass at Nieuwe Kirk, Delft, Netherlands (Bill Perry/Shutterstock.com).
The roots of Western liberalism both precede, and go far deeper, than Martin Luther and his influence.
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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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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

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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