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Jerry Weinberger is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University.

May 21, 2018|Heinrich Meier, Leo Strauss, Machiavelli, Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion, Socrates

Thoughts on Strauss and Machiavelli

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Heinrich Meier's new book on the challenge of revealed religion to political philosophy.

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

A discussion with Colin Dueck

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

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

A discussion with Craig S. Lerner

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

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

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

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

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

Greta Gerwig and the Art of Return

Gerwig's characters are real, human girls who must wrestle with the tension between their ambitions and their givenness, their futures and their pasts.
by Rachel K. Alexander
Mystic Timber

As an epic vision of reality, Karl Marlantes’s Deep River takes up the enduring cultural theme of primitivism.
by Lee Oser
The Times Reveals Its Priorities

The Times is doubling down on the policies and cultural attitudes that led to the improbable victory of Donald Trump.
by John O. McGinnis
Remembering Roger Scruton

Law & Liberty contributors offer their reflections on the man and his achievements.
by Law & Liberty Editors
The Last Gentleman of the English-Speaking World

Where many conservatives speak sentimentally of Western Civilization, Roger Scruton sought to know and justify it by the highest standards of philosophers.
by Titus Techera

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