The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

December 17, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, Civil Religion, Cold War, Foreign Policy, George Washington, Iraq War, Progressivism, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy, Theodore Roosevelt

American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall

by Walter A. McDougall|1 Comment

Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.

John Locke and Political Hebraism

by David Conway

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

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

by S.J.D. Green

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

Hijacking Liberalism: Spencer's The Man Versus the State

by Alberto Mingardi

At best, scholars often view Spencer as a magnificent dinosaur, at worst a grumpy phantom of Christmas past—this is a mistake.

Revisiting De Jouvenel’s Ethics of Redistribution: Seventy Years On

by Garreth Bloor

De Jouvenel’s interest is always to ensure open access to the market, an institution that engenders virtue—without exalting it above human flourishing.

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.

Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

A discussion with Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.

The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy

A discussion with Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.

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