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John Kitch is an Instructor in the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University.

April 18, 2018|Bureaucracy, cyber warfare, Military, Rosa Brooks, Rule of Law

Blurred Lines in Contemporary Warfare

A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone at NAS Jacksonville, October 26, 2014 (Michael Fitzsimmons / Shutterstock.com).

There seems to be an inevitable erosion of limits to military power in the United States, and Rosa Brooks helps us understand how this happened.

February 2, 2018|Civil Religion, football

Football as American Civic Religion

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Football is a key ritual in the nation’s civic religion and the best and worst aspects of its impact on the country’s cultural landscape flow from this.

Borne Back to the American Founding: A Conversation with George Will

A discussion with George F. Will

George Will discusses the meaning of the Conservative Sensibility in American politics.

Dismantling the Leftist Academic Complex: A Conversation with Roger Scruton

A discussion with Sir Roger Scruton

Scruton's crime was to have attempted to take the New Left seriously, finding it severely wanting, if not absurd.

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

A discussion with David Davenport

David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

Why Higher Education Is a Cartel: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki

A discussion with Todd Zywicki

Todd Zywicki joins this episode to discuss the bad economics and perverse regulatory framework of higher education.

The European Union and the Fate of Nations

Unless elites propose to elect another people, as Bertold Brecht joked, they'll just have to stop calling it “far right.”
by Titus Techera
Constitutional Text and State Sovereign Immunity

Many of the Supreme Court’s decisions as to state sovereign immunity are problematic, but there is an originalist basis for some of those decisions.
by Mike Rappaport
Donald Trump and the Political Philosophers

Can political philosophy help us think about Trump and contemporary America?
by Paul Seaton
Borne Back to the American Founding: A Conversation with George Will

George Will discusses the meaning of the Conservative Sensibility in American politics.
by George F. Will
Joseph Ellis’s American Monologue

In Joseph Ellis’ view, it’s just fine for us to love the Founders, but not for anyone to understand them in ways that might derail the march of progress.
by Brian A. Smith

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