Contents

The Jewish Critique of Nature

Wiesel’s Testament

Buber’s Anti-utopian Utopianism

“Peace on Earth”

Reason Within the Limits of Religion Alone: The Achievement of Richard Hooker

Anti-Jewish Malice

Jewish Interrogations of Modernity

Jerusalem versus Athens

Jewish Law versus Modern Philosophy

Augustine on War

Donne’s Candle for Saint Lucy

An American Orthodoxy?

Augustine’s Critique of Philosophy

The Song of Moses and the Regime of God

Solzhenitsyn’s Legacy

“Bible Notes”: Table of Contents

What Can We Learn from the Prophet Zephaniah?

The Humanitarian Temptation

Augustine on Predestination and Free Will: A Note

What Is Christian ‘Union’?

Sufi Islam

What Is Sanctification?

Founding the Christian Regime

Some Thoughts Concerning Christian Liberal Education

The First Epistle of John

The Names of Jesus

Chateaubriand’s Defense of Christianity

The Poetic of Christianity

Christianity and the Liberal Arts

Christian Forms of Worship

Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

The Problem of Factionalism in the Book of Ruth

John of Paris on Royal and Papal Power

Bonaventure on the Distinction between “Conscience” and “Synderesis”

Who Is Jesus?

Bossuet on “Universal History” before the Advent of Jesus

Bossuet on “Universal History” as Re-written by Christ

Theology as Inquiry

Bossuet’s Christian Prince

Bossuet on Royal Authority

Bossuet on Civic Duty

Bossuet on the Supports of Royalty

Abortion Wrongs

Manent on “The Religion of Humanity”

The Religious Statecraft of Pius X

Pius X on ‘Modernism’

C. S. Lewis’s Defense of the Miraculous

Shakespeare, Thinking About God

The Life of a Clerical Aristocrat

The Derangement of Love in the Western World

Chateaubriand in Jerusalem

Orthodox Christianity: Is Mysticism a Higher Form of Rationality?

Orthodox Christianity: Manifestations of God

Melville’s “Billy Budd”

Voegelin the Revolutionary

Plato’s Phaedrus

Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”

Plato’s Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias: The Recovery of Socratic Virtue

Origins of the “New Left”

Rousseau’s Solitary Walker

Aristotle on Rhetoric

Aristotle on Education

Mansfield on Machiavelli on Livy

‘Postmodernism’ as Disguised Modernism

Inequality, That Vexed Question

Two Critiques of Nihilism

Rousseau’s Social Contract

Plato’s Phaedo, I

Averroes’ Commentaries on Aristotle

Dante’s Heterodoxy

Spinoza and Modern Liberalism

Mill’s Liberalism and the Pursuit of Virtue

Modern Liberalism in Its Variety and Its Continuity

The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence

Historicity and Reason: Two Studies

Spinoza’s Liberalism

Mill’s Liberalism

Liberalism and Reason

Shakespeare and His Roman Plays

Delimiting Philosophy

Plato’s Republic

Rousseau’s “Confessions”

‘Postmoderns,’ Deconstructed

Rousseau: Nature or History?

Where Does Political Life Come From?

Pacifism and Just War

Socrates versus Athens

‘Postmodern’ Politics in America

Socrates’ Trial, Misjudged

Adam Smith, Moralist

Do Liberal Democracies Serve Any Purpose?

The Political Spirit

Socrates in the City

Plato’s “Protagoras”

What Is Executive Power?

Strauss on Political Philosophy

Imagination, Reconsidered

Locke Questions the Law of Nature

Plato–Short, Sweet, and Aporetic

Benda’s Dubious “Clerks”

Thirty-nine Reasons for Reading Benardete on Plato’s “Republic”

Plato the “War Lover”

Strengthening Social Contract Theory?

Discontented Moderns

Hegel: Philosophy Historicized

Emerson: Intellectual or Philosopher?

Sartre and the ‘Last Man’

Dewey: Growth and Its Problems

Marxism: Where Does It Go Wrong?

Montesquieu’s Erotic Liberalism

The Philosophy of Hamlet’s “Tragicall Historie”

Why Philosophy? Socrates’ End

Socratic Half-Lives: How Philosophic Were the Philosophers of the Schools?

Seneca on Philosophy and the Liberal Arts

Seneca: The Governance of Anger

Mr. Nice Guy: On the First Book of Montaigne’s Essays

Montaigne Concludes His Argument: The Essays, Book Three

How Some of Our Contemporaries Aspire to the Philosophic Life

Strauss on Reason and Revelation

Benda “Buried Alive”

Defending Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Ficino’s Metamorphic Retrieval of Plato’s “Symposium”

Aristotelian Physics

Fifteen Truths and a Noble Lie

The Philosopher-King: A Contradiction in Terms?

After Philosophy: Socrates Interruptus

Taylor’s “Politics of Recognition”

This Is Not an Essay: Critiques of Rawls from the ‘Left’

Flattery and Philosophy

How Can One Govern the Doubleness of Thought?

Is Machiavelli Machiavellian?

Derrida and ‘Deconstruction’

A Question of Integrity: Wolgast’s Critique of Rawls

Michel Foucault v. Nancy Fraser: Dueling Aphorisms

Marx’s Critique of Liberalism

Political Authority: Resistance and Obedience, Socrates and Hobbes

Liberalism’s “Two Faces”

Tocqueville the Mediator

‘Deliberative Democracy’

Benardete on the Odyssey

Aristotle and Modern Politics

Machiavelli Today?

De Jouvenel’s Conservative Liberalism

Learning from Aristotle

Tocqueville Companion

Is International Law Tyrannical?

Aristotle and ‘The Moderns’

Montaigne’s Politics

‘World Politics’

Philosophy and Just War

Natural Right and Political Philosophy

Locke on the Moral and Political Implications of Modern Science

‘Postmodern’ Happiness?

Beauvoir’s Politics

Thucydides and Political Liberty

Mercy

Manent on Thinking Politically

Repoliticizing Political Theory

Dewey’s Defense of ‘Liberalism’

Scruton Sums Up

“Philosophers”: Table of Contents

Plato’s Phaedo, II

Recovering Cicero

Tyranny and Philosophy

Conquest of Nature, 6.0

Is Logic ‘About’ Anything?

Taming Our Shrewishness

Logic and Ethics: Is There a Connection?

What Is Analytic Philosophy?

Rousseau as Philosopher: The “Discourse on Inequality”

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: Introduction

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Oriental World

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Greek World

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Roman World

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Germanic World

Natural Law and the Rights of Men

Bodin’s Secrets

Geopolitics of Love

Those Incoherent Philosophers

‘Regime,’ Defined

What Good Is Democracy?

Chateaubriand and Political Philosophy

Chateaubriand’s Critique of Rousseau’s State of Nature

Reconstituting Natural Philosophy

Strauss’s Critique of Hegel

The ‘Young Strauss’: A Critique from the ‘Left’

The Encounters of Seth Benardete

The Reflections of Seth Benardete

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education. Book I: Infancy

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education. Book II: Early Childhood

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education. Book III: The Mature Child

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education. Book IV: Sexuality and Compassion

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education, Book IV: The Savoyard Vicar

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education, Book IV: Emile in Civil Society

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Book V: The Wisdom of Taste

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Book V: Sophie

Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Book V: Comparative Politics and Natural Right within Civil Society

Education for Kingship: “Telemachus, Son of Ulysses.” Books I-VI: Eros Rightly Understood

Education for Kingship: “Telemachus, Son of Ulysses.” Books VII-XI: Founding the Best Practicable Regime

Telemachus at War, Preparing for Peace: Books XII-XVIII

Shakespearean Philosophy?

Anarcho-Capitalism Refuted

Dante on Monarchy

Liberal Education at Mid-Twentieth Century

The “New Atlantis”; Utopia or Dystopia?

Liberal Multiculturalism: Kymlicka’s Case

Cicero’s Defense of Politics

The Dialogue between Machiavelli and Shakespeare

Ciceronian Ethics

What is Vico Trying to Accomplish?

Seeking Wisdom in Poetry: Vico’s Philology

Vico’s Periods of History

Seneca on Anger: A Second Look

Machiavelli in Florence

Pedagogy of the (Would-Be?) Oppressors

The Effects of the Philosophy of Freedom on Modern Tyranny

The Critique of Rationalism in the Philosophy of Freedom

The Nature of Politics

Heidegger’s Consequences

Wise Contemporaries: Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent

Singer’s Critique of Sociobiology

What Is Beauty?

What Are Persons Worth?

Benardete on Plato’s “Philebus”

Is Kant a Historicist?

Perpetual Peace

Voegelin, Hitler, and the Germans

In Defense of Humanism

What Has Plato To Do With Modern Europe?

Marxism in Crisis

Political Theory for a Postmodernist ‘Left’

Dialogue Against Ideology: Raymond Aron’s Political Science

Literary ‘Theory,’ Refuted

Chastellux on “Public Happiness” in the Ancient World

Chastellux on “Public Happiness” in the Modern World: Defense of the Enlightenment

Aristotle’s Graceful Ethics

Plato’s Politic Practice: Plato’s Letters, I-IV

What Is Politic About Platonic Political Philosophy? Plato’s “Letters,” V-XIII

Moderation, All the Way Down

Aristotelian Politics, ‘Ancient’ and Modern’

Philosophy, A Way of Life

What Is “Effectual Truth”?

Teaching Virtue?

Who Is the Teacher?

Aquinas on Teachers and Teaching

Taught by an Angel? Aquinas on the Hierarchical Character of Christian Education

Feuerbach’s Materialism

Adventures in Inquiry: Leo Strauss’s Quest

Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger

Political Philosophy Now

Socrates and the Sophist

Political Philosophy in Beijing: A Consideration of Strauss

Political Philosophy in Beijing, II: A Consideration of Plato’s Socrates

Political Philosophy in Beijing, III: A Consideration of Nietzsche

Sorel’s Valorization of Violence

Alcibiades

Montaigne’s Project

What Has Wittgenstein To Do With Political Philosophy?

Misunderstanding Tocqueville

Kennan’s Second Thoughts

Edward M. Kennedy in 1980

Brzezinski Speaks

Solzhenitsyn’s Speech at Harvard

Jimmy Carter: Too Little, Too Late

The American Flag

Tocqueville and American Foreign Policy

The Nuclear Arms Moratorium: A Critique

Thoughts on the Nuclear `Freeze’

The Perpetuation of Peace

What’s Wrong with the American Party System?

Nixon’s Defense of Detente

America’s Founding “On Two Wings”

Educating the American Mind: The Progressives’ View

Educating the American Mind: The Founders’ View

Terrorism and American Foreign Policy

The Foreign Policy of the American Founders

American Foreign Policy Today

Election 2016: Where Are We Headed?

Defending Europe: The “Neutron Bomb” Controversy

Thinking About Nuclear Arms Control

Studies of the American Constitution

The Idea of Self-Government in the Political Thought of John Marshall

Carter, Mondale, and the Politics of Compassion

Religion and the New Liberalism

Foreign Policy of the American Founders

Foreign Policy Since 1890

Education as Understood by the American Founders

Education in the Minds of American Progressives

Rhetoric and American Statesmanship

Israel on America’s Mind

Statesmanlike Speech

The Founding and Perpetuation of the American Republic

How the Constitution Secures Rights

Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom of Expression

On the Preamble to the United States Constitution

In Defense of American Constitutionalism: The Case Against Initiative and Referendum

Tocqueville on Liberty and Democracy

Adams on Madison

Marking the Constitution’s Bicentennial

Philadelphia, 1787: An Introduction

Religious Liberty in America, Misunderstood

A Flaccid Defense of Freedom

Ronald Reagan: A Conservative’s Assessment

Public Morality, and Public Moralism

Benjamin Franklin as a Way of Life

Emerson: How ‘American’ Was He?

Macedo v. The Constitution

Locke and the American Founders

Washington’s Political Thought

Empty “Mandate”: Union of Concerned Scientists

Monroe’s Understanding of the Sovereignty of the American People

A Feminine History of the American Revolution

America’s Logocracy

American Prisons

The American Founders’ “Rhetorical Identities”

Why the American Revolution Really Was One

Jefferson’s Political Identity

FDR and Stalin

De Gaulle According to Faulkner

The First Amendment, Misunderstood

Pacifism’s Moral Crisis

Natural Right and the American Academic

Jeffersonian Empire

Political Science in the Commercial Republic

The Thomas Nomination: The Principles Behind the Polemics

Property Tax Law and the Passion for Equality

Ideology and Literary Studies: PMLA 1930-1990

Self-Government, the American Theme

Shklar on American Citizenship: A Dialogue with the Declaration

Lincoln on Culture

Challenges to American Liberalism: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

The Character of Modern Republicanism

Why the Federalists Won

Preconditions of the American Founding

Holmes on the “Missouri Question”

The Question of Slavery in the Founding Period

The Political Coherence of the Antebellum South

Federalism as Nationalism: Beer’s Critique of Madisonian Compact Theory

Has Federalism Impeded Tyranny in the United States?

‘Divided Government’ in America

Urban Studies and the Question of Race

Populism in America

The Decline of Voter Turnout in the United States

The Cold War: Causes and Effects

Clinton Impeached, but Why?

Revolution at Gettysburg?

Lincoln on Self-Government: The Reply to Douglas

Truman: A Turn to the Right?

The Idea of Self-Government in the Political Thought of John Marshall

What Does Not Kill Schell’s Argument Makes It Stronger

Hyphenate Americans and Invisible Men: The ‘Americanist’ Strategies of Wilson and Roosevelt in the Great War

Wilson’s Doubleness: A Commentary on “WW”

What Is “The Promise of American Life”?

Patriotism, a Natural Sentiment That Is Also Made

What Is a Regime?

Executive Authority in the Republican Regime: How the American Founders Designed the Presidency

The Progressives’ Presidency

Aristotle and Hamilton

Keeping a Republic: Lincoln and Tocqueville

Self-Government and Its Discontents

Publius on the American Regime and the American State

Publius on the Articles of Confederation Regime and State

Publius on Federalism and Rebellion

Publius on the United States Senate

Public Opinion, the American Way

On Pretending the Constitution Was a Blank Slate

What Does the Constitution Constitute?

United States Constitution: Some Powers of the House of Representatives

How Not to Understand the ‘Tea Party’ Movement

United States Constitution: How Senators are Elected

United States Constitution: Some Presidential Powers

United States Constitution: The Republican Guarantee Clause

America’s Reconstitution

War Is All Hell, Except When It Isn’t

Amerindians in the Civil War

America’s Constitution as Regime

The United States Constitution Considered with Multifaceted Superficiality

Folsoms Return Fire

Herbert Hoover’s Despairing Verve

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Political Science as Statecraft

The Right to Effective Citizenship

Constitutional Limits on Military Action

Due Process of Law

Aristocracy versus Democracy

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg

Goodnow’s Conception of American Liberty

The Race Issue

Hoover versus The New Deal

FDR as Tocquevillian?

Kennan

Executive Overreach

Immigration Reform and Executive Orders: Imperfect Together

The ‘Living’ Constitution

‘Paleoconservativism’ and the American Founding

Two-Faced Freedom?

Moynihan, the “American Burke”

Three English Settlements in North America, Compared

Lincoln Criticized in the Currently Fashionable Mode

Jackson’s War Record: The 1828 Presidential Campaign

Dixiecrats: The 1948 Presidential Election

Trump vs. Clinton: The 2016 Election

The Popular Front Reconstituted?

Formed for a Statesman: John Quincy Adams

America’s Foreign Observers

United States Constitution: The Carolene Products Case

Religion in Democratic Society

Why Are There Now So Few “Great Senators of the United States”?

United States Congress: A Brief Introduction

“American Politics”: Table of Contents

Madison’s New Science of Politics

Andrew Jackson: Popular Sovereignty and the United States Constitution

“Moby-Dick” and the “Young America”

“Moby-Dick”: The Adventure Before the Adventure

“Moby-Dick”: The Ship and Its Rulers

“Moby-Dick”: The Nature of Chaos

“Moby-Dick”: Living with Chaos

“Moby-Dick”: Revolution

“Moby-Dick”: Whales and Whale-Hunting

“Moby-Dick”: Isolatoes No More

“Moby-Dick”: Piety and Piracy

“Moby-Dick”: The Business Cycle

“Moby-Dick”: Ivory and Steel

“Moby-Dick”: Storm

The ‘Progressive’ Critique of the Declaration of Independence

“Moby-Dick”: End of the Yarn

“Moby-Dick”: Concluding Thoughts

Charles Olson Considers Melville

Melville’s “Battle-Pieces” or, “Moby-Dick” in Practice

The Logic of the United States Constitution

The Relation of the Federal Government to the State Governments: What Does Publius Say?

Free, Independent, and Sovereign? The Status of the American States

The Frontier Closes: Foreign Policy and the Status of the States

Civil Society and Local Government

Liberalism and Statism in America

Political Partisanship Now

Planning an American Islamic Republic

George Washington, Nation-Builder

Mathematicians in America

American Foreign Policy Since the Second World War

America’s Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence: British Rejoinders

Defending the American Founding

Moral and Civic Virtues, the American Way

Self-Government, the American Way

Republicanism, the American Way

That Exquisite Headache, the University of Virginia

Dickens in America

Whose Declaration?

Imperialism and Regime Change as Instruments of Foreign Policy in the Washington Administration

State and Regime in America: The Articles of Confederation, Pro and Con

Who Is an American Citizen?

Printouts of Progressivism

The “Constitutional Sheriff” and the Rule of Law

Taking Their Stand: The Southern Agrarians

The Idea of Representation and the Problem of Delegation

New Deal or No Deal: American Economic Policies, 1914-1946

Washington Politics during World War Two

The Statesmanship of Word and Deed: Abraham Lincoln

‘Multicultural’ Education

The Plains Sioux and the Empire of Liberty

Education for Democracy

Political ‘Identitarianism’

John Quincy Adams: Guide for Today?

Why Have There Been No Military Coups in the United States?

The Presence of the Old ‘New Left’

A Progressive’s Critique of Progressivism

The Institutional Framework for Executive Firmness in the United States Constitution

Mobbed by Consent

How the American Founders Understood Religious Liberty

Sex, Drugs, and Civil Rights: Regime Change for Dummies

When the Business of America Was Business: The National Wrestling Alliance

Corruption and the Constitution

The Primer on “Critical Race Theory”

Chastellux in America

On Aristotle and America

Federalism and Democracy in America

Municipal Planning and Zoning in the United States

The City in the Commercial Republic

Regime Changes in Local Government: Democracy in America?

The Real Anti-Racism

Malraux and De Gaulle

Machiavelli and the Shah

Rhodesia: Emotions and Realities

Mr. Buckley’s Critique of Begin

Self-Determination, Now

“Pravda” Means “Truth”

The Costs of Survival

Islam and Modern Politics

Islam and Modern Politics: Al Qaeda

Islam and Modern Politics: Saudi Arabia

Islam and Modern Politics: Iran

Muslims and the Modern State

De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic: President and Parliament

Churchill’s Statesmanship

Reply to Garcia Marquez

France’s Mitterrand

Islam and Modern Politics

Al-Qaeda and ‘Islamism’

Saudi Arabia

Iran

Syria and Its Civil War

De Gaulle: Portrait of a Statesman

Democracy’s Temptations

Geopolitics of the Cold War

The Fate of French Collaborators After the World War

Cocteau the Greek

Fascism in France, Misunderstood

French Factionalism

France’s Civilizing Mission

Marxism-Leninism, Incisively Debunked

German Reunification

Churchill on Empire

Sinyavsky and the Bearable Heaviness of Dissent

Michnik on the Polish Church

De Gaulle’s Statesmanship Rightly Understood

Hitler’s Architect, Albert Speer: A Note

A Written Constitution for Israel: The Eidelberg Proposal

Charles Tilly and the Reconstruction of Political History

The French and American Revolutions Compared

Historiography Against Tyranny: The Achievement of Guglielmo Ferrero

Fascists: Who Were They?

Islam in Crisis

British Imperialism and Its Critics

‘Indirect’ Imperialism

Camus and His Native Algeria

Havel’s Political Thought

Stalin

Thucydides on Politics

Resistance, Reconsidered

Where France Stood in Churchill’s Geopolitical Landscape

Aron Companion

Churchill’s War Cabinet

Tyrants

Solzhenitsyn on the Russian Revolution

“Nations”: Table of Contents

Margaret Thatcher

Troubling History

Does It Make Sense to Seek Truth in Politics? Havel and Michnik Talk It Over

Rood Geopolitics

Solzhenitsyn on Russian Reconstruction

Can Democracy Work?

Solzhenitsyn in the Seventies: Prospects for Russia and the West

Chinese Appropriations of Schmitt and Strauss

Gods of the Family, Gods of the City: The “Antigone”

Machiavelli’s “Florentine Histories”

Lincoln, Churchill, and Statesmanship

The Many Regimes of Chateaubriand

Edmund Spenser on What to Do with the Irish

Shakespearean Comedy: Two Points on the Compass

The Regime Change That Wasn’t

China in the 1990s

How to Read Tocqueville’s “The Old Regime and the Revolution”

The Napoleonic Wars Weren’t Over till Charlotte Bronte Said They Were Over

The Temptation of the West: Solzhenitsyn in America

Regime Change in Japan

What Will Russia Be?

Livy, Teacher of Statesmen

Livy’s Model Statesman

What Is “The Great Reset”?

The Roman Republic in Action: Polybius, Books I-II

Roman Resilience: Polybius, Books III-V

The Roman Regime: Polybius, Book VI

Tocqueville’s Thoughts on the History of England

Churchill in the Sudan: War and Statesmanship

Geopolitics of Asia

The Political and Economic History of Modern China

The China Strategy

Portrait of a Jihadist

The Newest ‘Left’

Chateaubriand’s America

The Costs of Chinese Leninism

Churchill at War

Sallust in Defense of History

Liberal Multiculturalism, II: Kymlicka’s Restatement

Hobbes on “The Long Parliament”

Grand Strategy for the Philippines

A Chinese Tocqueville?

What Is Statesmanship?

The Monarchist Kulturkampf of Charles Maurras

An Education in Romanness

Caesar Considers the Gauls

American Vercingetorix

Aron on De Gaulle: Wartime and Postwar

Aron on De Gaulle: The Fifth Republic

Spanish Conquistadors Through a ‘Postmodernist’ Lens

Lakotas

Conflict of Regimes, Conflict of Empires: Lakotas Confront the United States

Chateaubriand Against Napoleon

Chateaubriand and Napoleon: Parallel Lives

Napoleon and Alexander: Parallel Lives

Chateaubriand and Napoleon: Parallel Defeats

What Is Europe?

How Communists Conducted Regime Change in Hungary

What Is the Modern State?

Regimes in Collision

The Debacle of the French Intellectuals

The Causes of War

Mann’s Analysis of the Causes and Effects of War

Hamas: Its History and Character

How the Stars at Churchill’s Birth Formed the Constellation of His Life

Institutional Heft: How the Left Cinches in Its Ideocracy

Founding Bulgaria

The Manly, Moderate Republicanism of “Wilhelm Tell”

The Distinctive Character of Russia

Warfare Now

France Between the World Wars: The Witness of Raymond Aron

What American Democracy Means for Europe, in the Estimation of Alexis de Tocqueville

The French “New Right”

Anti-Americanism of the European Right, Then and Now

Hindenburg

Clemenceau

Communism As It Has Been and As It Is

The Struggle Over Eurasia

The Comprehensive Strategy of Xi Jinping, 2012-2017

Hitler’s Intentions

Chateaubriand’s Voyage toward Jerusalem

The French Malaise

Malraux and De Gaulle: Can Democracy Be Cultural?

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

An Age of Inflation

Sentimental Individualism

“Algeny”

“Gone With the Wind,” Begone

Peace-Seeking in the Western Tradition

How Not to Edit a Collection of Essays

Can the Use of Nuclear Weapons Be Moral?

How Bloom Did It: Rhetoric and Principle in “The Closing of the American Mind”

Leftist Lit-Crit, Revised

Malraux and ‘Diversity’

Sade: Laclos for the Lackluster

Frost and Oliver: Poets of Nature

Vaunting Guardians of the Marxist Revolution

The Goodness of Banality

Oedipus’ Self-Deception

Fatherhood and Friendship in the Modern Regime: Jean Dutourd’s “The Springtime of Life”

Politics and Romance: Hawthorne’s Blithedale

The Intellectual Life and the Social Life: Imperfect Together

The Spirit of the (Democratic) Laws

What Is a ‘Network’?

“Manners and Morals”: Table of Contents

Gentlemen and Gentlemanliness According to Shakespeare

How to Be a Sensible Tourist: Edith Wharton in the Mediterranean

Racine’s “Britannicus”

What Shakespeare Means to Say, When He Says, “As You Like It”

Comic Errors, Legal Slapstick

Twelfth Night

The Wizard of Oz, or, Platonism for the People

The Wisest Beholder

Royal Dreaming

Is All Well That Ends Well?

Epidemic of Fear

Young Werther’s Wrongly-Ordered Soul

Tocqueville on the Moral Effects of Public Charity

Latini’s Treasure: What A Gentleman Should Know About Nature

Latini’s Treasure: What a Gentleman Should Know About Morality

Latini’s Treasure: What a Gentleman Should Know About Politics

The Roman Cato with the Soul of Washington

Teaching as Distinct from Educating

Philip Gilbert Hamerton: Man of Letters, Man of Art

Liberal Education, That Vexed Thing

The Life of the Mind as a Way of Life

The Holocaust Reconsidered

What Is the Point of Studying Literature?

Undertaking Literary Study

Malraux and the “Farfelu”

Are Liberal Studies Moral?

Religious Toleration Among the Aristocrats? Chateaubriand’s Thought Experiment

The “Two Cities” Viewed from Poland

Why Ardor?

Sociology, That Societal Problem

Does Music Mean Anything?

Soul Music

Is the Decline of Civility the Refutation of Montaigne?

What’s So Funny About the Law?

Robert H. Horwitz, 1923-1987

Journalist Meets Postmoderns: Jonathan Schell at the New School

“Remembrances”: Table of Contents