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Hope and Resistance
Hope and Resistance A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L Chappell. University of North Carolina Press. 344 pp. $34.95 reviewed by...
Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order
First, the basics: born in Germany in 1901, Eric Voegelin received a doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna, carried on several years of postdoctoral study in...
To NATO from Plato
Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace by thomas l. pangle and peter j. ahrensdorf university press of kansas, 372 pages, $27.80 Makers of American...
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought by eugene teselle university of scraton press, 227 pages, $19.99 Augustine is a thinker for all seasons and all times...
Augustine’s World and Ours
One of the most striking differences between constitutional democracies and tyrannies in our time pertains to certain habits of mind. In constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms...
Alone for Others
Rarely, in our times, do social and political theorists praise solitude. Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental...
At the End of Pragmatism
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority By John Patrick Diggins University of Chicago Press, 515 pages, $29.95 Christianity is essentially a contemplative faith....
