Jeffrey Church is a political theorist and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. Church joins this episode of the Political Theory Review Podcast to discuss his new Oxford University Press book, Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life. The book is the “first extended treatment of Immanuel Kant’s understanding of […]
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Apocalypse without God: Author Interview with Ben Jones
Ben Jones is the Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Research Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. On this episode of Political Theory Review, Jones discusses his new Cambridge University Press book, Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope. The book argues that “we can gain […]
Burke and Adams: Tradition vs. Constitutionalism
In his 1953 classic The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk stresses what he sees as the remarkable similarity in political thinking between Edmund Burke, the “Father of Western Conservatism,” and John Adams, often referred to as the first great American conservative. Kirk asserts that “it is difficult to draw any clear line of demarcation” between the […]
Progressive and Regressive: The Evolving Treatment of Indigenous Americans in Zane Grey’s ‘The Vanishing American’
The 1925 silent film adaptation of Zane Grey’s popular novel, The Vanishing American, is correctly considered a benchmark in the evolution of the cinematic treatment of Indigenous Americans, in part, because of its contemporaneity. Set in the early 20th century rather than the 19th, this film made audiences aware of the valor of Indigenous Americans […]
Indigenous Sovereignty against Family Separation
As scholars, advocates, and citizens from Indigenous societies across the Americas have argued since the beginning of European colonization, “Indigenous sovereignty” consists in the power and right of Indigenous peoples to govern themselves and their relations with other societies on their own terms. In short, Native nations have a right to govern through their own […]
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