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March 16, 2020|Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society

Stuck With Decadence

by Ross Douthat|

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

March 2, 2020|Aquinas, Aristotle, Aurel Kolnai, Descartes, Enlightenment, Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law, James Bond, John Rawls, Kant

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

by Graham McAleer|

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

February 14, 2020|affirmative action, Christopher Caldwell, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Donald Trump, Great Society, Identity Politics, Office for Civil Rights, Political Correctness, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, The Age of Entitlement

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

by Christopher Caldwell|

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

January 27, 2020|A Time to Build, Civil Society, Congress, Evangelical Protestant, Higher Education, President, Roman Catholicism, Yuval Levin

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

by Yuval Levin|

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

January 15, 2020|Age of Iron, Conservative Internationalism, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Realism, Trade Wars

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

by Colin Dueck|

Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

January 2, 2020|Craig Lerner, Criminal Punishment, Death Penalty

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

by Craig S. Lerner|

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

December 13, 2019|Amity Shlaes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Great Society, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Port Huron Statement, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Tom Hayden

Planning the Great Society

by Amity Shlaes|

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

December 2, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, Executive Power, George Washington, Populism, Stephen Knott, The Lost Soul of the American Presidency, Woodrow Wilson

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders’ Presidency

by Stephen F. Knott|

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

November 15, 2019|judicial engagement, Judicial Review, Judicial Supremacy, Originalism, The Political Constitution

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

by Greg Weiner|

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

November 4, 2019|Immigration, Populism, Whiteshift

Managing Whiteshift

by Eric Kaufmann|

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.
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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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