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Harvey Mansfield at 93 did a 3-hour interview with no break, sharp as ever.
Here is the final product, a masterclass on Machiavelli: the Anti-Christ.
According to Mansfield, Machiavelli is the very founder of modernity, responsible for establishing the very world you and I live in. He is the... See more
Johnathan Bix.comThe Straussian Moment
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From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
What excited Europeans was the belief that they had both the right and the means to ‘make’ or remake America in Europe’s image, or even as an improved version of the old continent.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Populism gives life to Michel Foucault’s celebrated reversal of the Clausewitz dictum: Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.