Living Well with Adam Smith
Adam Smith is famous for his teachings on wealth; scholars often credit his most famous work, in fact, The Wealth of Nations, with inaugurating an era of unprecedented affluence. The economist...
View ArticleToward a Renewed Liberal Nationalism?
Nationalism is currently enjoying an unprecedented revival. From the UK to the US to Eastern Europe it is being embraced by the electorate as a direct result of a political, social, and intellectual...
View ArticleRuling Our Selves: The Right Kind of Regime Change
Tales of a “crisis of liberalism” flow from the pens of writers from a variety of ideological perspectives. Some want to rejuvenate liberalism or shore up its foundations, while others want to demolish...
View ArticleLuther and Liberalism
Numerous historical accounts present Martin Luther as the starting point for the rise of Western liberalism. In the most recent issue of the Concordia Theological Quarterly, historian Korey D. Maas...
View ArticleLiberalism Needs the Nation
In his response to Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political, Leo Strauss observed that Schmitt’s “critique of liberalism occurs in the horizon of liberalism.” Much the same might be said of our current...
View ArticleA War of Ideas?
Conservatives finally have something to talk about again. That is how I recently heard the current moment in American conservatism described. Indeed, uncertainty swirls around conservatism today. The...
View ArticleExhausted in Space
At the beginning of the original Star Trek series (1966-1969), Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) intones, “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its...
View ArticleStephen Williams on Liberal Reform
Editor’s Note: These remarks were delivered at an event entitled “A Remembrance of Judge Stephen F. Williams” held by the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University on October 9, 2020. Late...
View ArticleThe Effectual Truth of Identity Politics
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on identity politics sponsored by the Ryan Foundation. Is “identity politics” the core of today’s liberalism? Or, as I will argue, is identity politics...
View ArticleWilhelm Röpke’s Civilization of Liberty
Eighty years ago, a book was published in Zurich, Switzerland that purported to explain what its author called “the sickness of our civilization” and “the manner of its cure.” The author, Wilhelm...
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