France’s finest contemporary political thinker can help us understand the relationship between philosophy, politics, and religion.
Daniel J. Mahoney
Scruton’s humane approach to thinking about our common life should inspire not just reflection, but renewal.
Scruton's conservatism saves modern liberty from itself while resisting the temptation to identify the Good with a romanticized past.
In his great work of dramatized history, Solzhenitsyn ponders the lessons of the Russian Revolution.
Roger Scruton wanted to restore the love of “existing things,” revivifying Burke’s primordial contract connecting the living, the dead, and the unborn.
If philosophy does not defend the truths inherent in common life, it risks foreswearing its ancient and venerable “promise” to help us to live well.
Solzhenitsyn’s account of applied ideology at work in the totalitarian experiment that was the Soviet Union still remains relevant to readers today.
After fifty years, The Gulag Archipelago can still rekindle the moral scruples essential to our humanity.
Regime Change is a lost opportunity to revive a decaying liberalism and multiple forms of ossified conservatism.
Disillusioned with Sartre and the Cuban Revolution, Mario Vargas Llosa discovers and recovers the liberal tradition.
The paradoxes of Robespierre still remain at the heart of a powerful if deformed version of modernity.
Neither religious conservatism nor liberalism should be discarded.
Yoram Hazony's book is a welcome and noble failure.
Roger Scruton remained faithful to the Platonic view that “care of the soul" was inseparable from care of the polis.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's warning about the great ideological Lie is a clarion call for the West to recover its civic pride and self-respect.
For Dostoevsky, to reject moral nihilism is to reaffirm at once moral freedom, limits, responsibility, and the quest for truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons continues to illuminate a path forward amidst our debilitating contemporary crisis.
Solzhenitsyn conveys deep truths and lost opportunities that might have saved Russia.
What is needed now more than ever is the renewal of political reason that remains faithful to the twin goods that are truth and liberty.
Human beings are not citizens of the world but have political obligations that have little to do with the abstraction called “humanity."
Churchill's soul melded together magnanimity and moderation, heroic greatness with solicitude for political liberty.
Jouvenel made a signal contribution to political wisdom in modern times, and united what is best in classical conservatism and liberalism.
Tocqueville refused to idolize a “democratic” social and political ethic that was always tempted to say adieu to political and moral greatness.
Conservatism has hope because many ordinary people are still proud to be patriots, and some remain stalwart people of faith.
For Manent, action is never an end in itself but must always be guided by the virtues.
Trevor Shelley succeeds in recovering a noble and humane political perspective within the horizons of modern liberty and modern politics.
What lessons remain eighty years after France's collapse in the face of the German onslaught?
Chances are the ideological Lie will continue to haunt a modern adventure that has lost its true sense of purpose.
We in the West need to draw on the best anti-totalitarian wisdom, as never before.
James F. Pontuso’s wonderfully accessible book on what happens when virtue and morality are severed from their grounding in nature and reason.
Every student of politics and political philosophy must spend time with Marx, even if only to learn what to avoid.
Nihilism is as much of a threat as totalitarianism ever was.
Those who loathe and those who celebrate May 1968 agree it was a defining moment for Western democracy in its late modern form.
Prominent French thinkers Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague discuss religion, secularism, and the future of life in the West.
