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Political Philosophy

Our Town

What is the importance of a political philosophy held only by a self-appointed intellectual elite and not lived by the citizens who must endure it?

Sorcery or Nihilism, Part II

No popular regime, it would seem, can sustain civic piety based on reason alone because too few will grasp the truth of it and even those few who grasp it will infuse it with error.

‘Bring Me Some New Clichés’

Leo Strauss and his student Harry Jaffa understood that once philosophical insights and political principles ossify into clichés, they are no longer meaningful. 

David Tucker’s Purity Test

A critical reader tries to make sense of a historian’s sweeping assertions about the Declaration of Independence, natural right, and national conservatism.

America Never Existed

We are in danger of losing not only the habits and institutions of republican self-government, but our very ability to remember and understand them. It will be as if America never existed.