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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.

August 16, 2019|Aquinas, Aristotle, Christianity, Enlightenment, Judaism, Logos, Natural Law, Postmodernism, Sam Gregg, Western Civilization

The Logos of Western Civilization: A Conversation with Sam Gregg

by Samuel Gregg|

Sam Gregg explores how the West is built on the union of the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible.

September 11, 2017|Alasdair MacIntyre, Aquinas, Aristotle, capitalism, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, Karl Marx

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Marxist Sweet Spot

by Timothy Fuller|

Alasdair MacIntyre presents Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative as a summation and restatement of central ideas in his moral philosophy, ideas that will be familiar to readers of his earlier major works. He says he wants to minimize technical discussion of the writings of professional philosophers. Instead, he aims to make his arguments accessible to non-professionals. Those who will read this book, however, are most likely to be already familiar with his work and want to see how he now formulates his arguments. Those who have not previously entered this world…

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May 21, 2014|Aquinas, Aristotle, John Locke, Leo Strauss, Natural Law, Natural Right

The Real John Locke—and Why He Matters

by Donald Devine|

Scores of textbooks attest that John Locke is the most important intellectual influence on America’s Founding. No other first-tier philosopher can provide a moral and theoretical justification for the United States, its traditional culture, and its form of government. Even the skeptics who question Locke being the only influence concede he was the most significant. The practical problem is that modern experts are confused about what Locke actually thought.

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April 15, 2014|Aquinas, Aristotle, Edmund Burke, George H. W. Bush, Leo Strauss, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“The god of this lower world”

by Greg Weiner|

NPG 655; Edmund Burke studio of Sir Joshua ReynoldsEdmund Burke, mobilizer of theoretical resistance to the French Revolution in the face of all odds, pursuer of Warren Hastings in the face of certain defeat, lived a political life so seemingly incautious that by its end he had to ask to be buried in an anonymous grave lest the Jacobins, on their inevitable march across his beloved island, exhume and violate his bones. Yet he described prudence as “the first of all virtues.”

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July 2, 2013|Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, fiscal policy, Freakonomics, Public Choice, Redeeming Economics, Scholasticism

Rediscovering the Missing Element of the ‘Dismal Science’

by John D. Mueller|

This next Liberty Law Talk is with John Mueller, author of Redeeming Economics. Modern economic thought focuses on production, exchange, and consumption. Much of Mueller's focus, however, is on final distribution, or the notion that a great deal of our economic activity is really about providing benefits or gifts to those we love. Mueller returns to Aristotle to articulate why this missing element is so important for understanding economics. In his Politics, Aristotle described the economy by using a household model oikos, the root of our word economics, where agents distribute goods to increase the flourishing of family members and…

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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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