Aristotle, Newman, and the Cosmic Gentleman
But for myself, Gentlemen, I have felt like a navigator on a strange sea, who is out of sight of land, is surprised by night, and has to trust mainly to the rules and instruments of his science for...
View ArticleThe Community of Friends in Apollonius’ Argonautika
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2013 Ciceronian Society Annual Meeting. In many ways, the Hellenistic era (roughly 336BC through 31BC) is the chronological division of the ancient...
View ArticleOrestes Brownson and the Mystical Body of the Union
I. Life and Writings Born in Vermont, Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a largely self-educated New England radical, Universalist minister, and (finally) Catholic layman and polemicist. During...
View ArticleA Constitution in Full: Modern Political Tendencies and the American Departure
In order to understand the true character of the Constitution of the U.S. the error, not uncommon, must be avoided, of viewing it through the medium either of a consolidated Government or of a...
View ArticleWilliam Cavanaugh's "Killing For The Telephone Company," A Critique
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2013 Ciceronian Society Annual Meeting. Responses to Thomas Storck's provocative essay are welcome and may be forthcoming. The tradition of...
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George Carey: Constitutionalism, Conservatism, and Character
George Westcott Carey died Friday, June 21, 2013. He was 79. He should be remembered first and foremost as a teacher, more particularly as a mentor, encouraging students and younger colleagues to the...
View ArticleProphecy and Misconstruction: A Review of Zuckert and Webb’s The...
The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Zuckert and Derek A. Webb Liberty Fund Press, 2009, 483 pp. Michael Zuckert and Derek Webb’s recent...
View ArticleThe False Genealogies of Neo-Progressivism
Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (Broadside Books, 2012), 261 pp. Donald T. Critchlow & W.J. Rorabaugh, Takeover: How the Left's Quest for Social Justice...
View ArticleCavanaugh and the Question of the State
Introduction In his 2004 article, ""Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good,"[1] the political theologian William Cavanaugh offered a challenge to...
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