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The Syria Question

In today’s On the Square , R.R. Reno points out that we are not taking Syria seriously: We can avoid clarity because few think anything important is at stake in Syria, or anywhere else in the world for that matter. This judgment reflects a deeper conviction that we now live in a global system . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.9.13

The Crank Within Douglas Casson, Books & Culture Leszek Kolakowski, Jester and Priest John Connelly, The Nation A Land Without Sin Greg Garrett, Patheos Reform Congregations Reform the Bar Mitzvah Laurie Goodstein, New York Times An Evangelical Reviews Evangelical Catholicism Mark Noll, Comment . . . . Continue Reading »

Canadian Semi-Kojevianism

Hugh Gillis, in the thread, was uncomfortable with being called a Kojevian, because that would imply he agrees with everything Alexandre said (and that, of course, would be impossible). He makes the important point that Kojeve mainly enjoyed people who disagreed with him—Aron, Strauss, and . . . . Continue Reading »

American Liberty: An Introduction

So alongside my rock songbook, I’m inaugurating here a new series about the American idea of liberty. I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I’m now hoping to develop into a book. Here is the beginning . . . . Continue Reading »

America as the End of History

So in response to the modest demand that I say more about the Strauss-Kojeve panel at the APSA, here is another portion of my comments . In Hegel himself and in Kojeve sometimes—and, of course, in Fukuyama’s lullaby version of Kojeve—the philosophical observation that history has . . . . Continue Reading »

Support Books & Culture

Matthew Schmitz has already pointed readers to Books & Culture’ s need for supporters to pledge a lot of money by Monday to keep publishing. Let me add my own encouragement. Books & Culture has an important place, a place only it can fill, in the world — the shrinking world . . . . Continue Reading »

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