Philosophy

Society & Culture

March 1, 2020

Historical Revisionism on the Right

Grant Havers

Nietzsche writes in the concluding section of Twilight of the Idols, “One does not learn from the Greeks—their way is too alien, and also too fluid, to have an imperative effect, a ‘classical’ effect.” The divide between Greek antiquity and...
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In Memoriam

March 1, 2020

Sir Roger Scruton: Britain's Culture Warrior

John M. Vella

I first heard Roger Scruton speak at the 1993 regional Philadelphia Society meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. Scruton spoke on the topic of “The Conservative Mind...
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Remembering the Right

February 30, 2020

Remembering Richard Weaver

Jay Langdale

Native Southerner and traditionalist conservative, Richard Weaver (1910-1963) was a unique figure in the rise of the modern American right. Weaver, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago, was an historian, literary critic, and...
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Remembering the Right

January 1, 2020

Remembering Robert Nisbet

James Kalb

It is hard to imagine anyone today having a career like Robert Nisbet’s: professor at Berkeley, Arizona, and Columbia; dean and vice-chancellor at the University of California, Riverside; author of widely used sociology textbooks; and co-founder,...
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Views

January 1, 2020

The Unbearable Burden of Being

Anthony Esolen

What has brought upon us the madness of the “transgender,” with all its sad denial of the beauty and particularity of male and female? To see the cause, we must diagnose the malady. It is boredom: an irritable impatience with the things that...
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American Proscenium

June 5, 2014

Suspicious Minds

Jerry Salyer

Will Russian philosophy gain a foothold in Russia? It already has, laments David Brooks in a New York Times op-ed (“Putin Can’t Stop,” March 3).
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