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Refreshing and Disturbing: Anthony Peacock on Thucydides and The Federalist

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Peacock’s rediscovery of the lost Federalist is a much needed corrective to contemporary scholarship.

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John Locke and Political Hebraism

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Locke published the Two Treatises as a moral justification of violent resistance against tyranny—and the Hebrew Bible was vital to this endeavor.

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Robert Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool: Guarantor of Britain’s Stability in a Turbulent Time

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The Victorians looked down on him. Because of William Anthony Hay’s fine biography, we have no excuse to follow suit.

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De Gaulle, Re-Founder of French Republicanism

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The man the French consider the most important figure in their long history, with Napoleon a distant runner-up.

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Correcting Our View of Montesquieu

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He wasn’t a theorist of “liberal republicanism”; he was one of the great theorists of early modern monarchical government.

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What Does the Word “Liberal” Mean?

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Helena Rosenblatt presents a Continentalized (which is to say incomplete) definition of liberalism.

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Structural Realism Has No Clothes

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What is remarkable is that, despite decades of scholarship and change, today’s structural realists have revised or changed almost none of their views.

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Modernity’s Projects and the Loss of Human Dignity

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Remi Brague shows how the modern person has made the human rather than nature the measure of all things.

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Ordered Liberty and the Demands of Law

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Self-governing people make—design, craft, and promulgate—law to govern their own and others’ choices and actions.

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Pierre Manent on Machiavelli, Luther, and the Eclipse of the Natural Law

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We go off track when we conceive human rights as representing freedom, and the natural law as representing oppression.

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