In his 2014 work The Great Debate, Yuval Levin argues that the origin of the debate between progressives and conservatives in Western liberalism can be traced to the end of the 18th century, specifically citing the opposing positions of Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France) and Thomas Paine (Rights of Man) in response […]
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The Founders’ Rejection of Christian Orthodoxy in America
America’s changing religious landscape has given rise to new accusations against classical liberalism for undermining the religious, moral, and civic resources the American experiment in self-government relies upon. Returning to more orthodox forms of faith is understandably thought the best way to revitalize those resources. Yet according to John Locke and four of America’s founders […]
Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap
A conversation with Yascha Mounk, a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, about his new book, “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” (Penguin Random House). The Identity Trap covers the push for social justice and newfound cultural identity in the West from a new […]
Philip Pettit – The State
A conversation with Philip Pettit, a Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, on his new book “The State” (Princeton UP, 2023). Pettit has published several important works within the world of moral and political philosophy such as “On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of […]
A Court of Reason: What the Supreme Court Teaches By How It Decides
The Supreme Court has been facing a crisis of public confidence. This was true even prior to the controversy around Justice Clarence Thomas’s undisclosed financial ties to a billionaire conservative political donor, and prior to the spate of right-leaning rulings that marked the end of the court’s most recent term. Gallup reported last fall that […]
