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Juliana Geran Pilon is a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. She is the author of several books, including The Art of Peace: Engaging a Complex World (2016), and her latest, The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom, was published in September of 2019.

December 18, 2019|Francis Fukuyama, Ideology, Utopia

Back on the Road to Nowhere

by Juliana Geran Pilon|

Antifa march in Portland, Oregon on August 4, 2018 (Eric Crudup / Shutterstock.com).
Our addiction to utopian thinking suggests Fukuyama should have turned to hubris rather than thymos as the danger to watch.

October 23, 2019|Central Committee of the Communist Party, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, Judgment in Moscow, KGB, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Vladimir Bukovsky

The Current Russian Kleptocracy’s Roots Uncovered

by Juliana Geran Pilon|

Chalatenango, El Salvador, February, 1984: A guerrilla fighter of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, part of the FMLN coalition that received much of its weaponry and matériel from Russia, via Cuba and Nicaragua. (image: Mike Goldwater / alamy.com)
Vladimir Bukovsky uncovered files that confirm what many already knew: that Third World Marxists fomented revolution with the aid of the Kremlin.

September 11, 2019|AIPAC, Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign, Ilhan Omar, Karl Marx, Miftah, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Rashida Tlaib, Sayyid Qutb

It’s Not about Israel or Grandmothers, It’s about US

by Juliana Geran Pilon|

Protesters at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital expressing support for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), March 24, 2019.
Ilhan & Rashida’s trip was not about experiencing our democratic ally, about aged grandmothers, or even the Palestinians. Ultimately, it's about America.

March 11, 2019|Alain Besançon, Auguste Comte, Daniel Mahoney, Eric Voegelin, Immanuel Kant, Isaiah Berlin, Pope Benedict XVI, Positivism, The Idol of Our Age

Championing Mankind at the Expense of Real Human Beings

by Juliana Geran Pilon|

Daniel Mahoney on why substituting “the love of Humanity for the love of God” has had such inhumane consequences.

January 18, 2019|Adolf Hitler, Anti-Semitism, From Ambivalence to Betrayal, Jews, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Linda Sarsour, Louis Farrakhan, Robert S. Wistrich, Tamika Mallory

The Left’s Anti-Semitism Problem: A History

by Juliana Geran Pilon|

The first Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. (image: shutterstock.com)
Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington hold disreputable views, but the marchers don’t seem to care.

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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