CATEGORY: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (6 min)
If Plato’s Republic is in your top ten . . .
. . . and you celebrated Constitution Day with a WhatsApp joke your friends didn’t get . . .
You’re obviously into political philosophy. (We love it, too.)
If you really want to get into political philosophy and understand its world, there’s an introduction to the subject by a Harvard professor you must read.
Political Philosophy vs. Political Science and More
In this week’s Intercollegiate Review essay, we’ve made it easy for you. We published an excerpt of Harvey C. Mansfield’s little book A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy.
So if you want to step way ahead of your classmates and approach the subject with a connoisseur’s careful eye, hit the button to start reading Mansfield’s intro.
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CATEGORY: HISTORY (6 min)
“Guilt by association” is a popular mode of argumentation these days.
Progressives like calling conservatives “fascist” to silence debate. It’s almost too easy.
But Peter Hitchens has some nauseating history for the progressive types.
Like Looking in a Mirror
In First Things, Hitchens points out that Nazism was socialism. Hitler’s program was hardly any different from Stalin’s Communism.
In fact, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 wasn’t a reluctant truce between Nazis and Communists. It was a celebration, complete with parades.
But there’s more. Hitler’s Germany was “progressive” not only in politics but also in eugenics.
Read Hitchens’s essay to find the limits of “guilt by association” and discover some sobering parallels between ideas popular in the 1930s and those that progressives are advocating today.
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CATEGORY: CONSERVATISM (11 min)
What exactly are conservatives trying to conserve?
It’s a hard question. And it’s particularly difficult to answer in the age of Trump, who has altered public perceptions of conservatism.
In this Modern Age archive pull, Greg Weiner reminds conservatives and Republicans alike of some key features of the U.S. Constitution and suggests that this is a pivotal moment for conservatism.
Read his essay to learn:
- Why The Federalist Papers encouraged allegiance to institutions—not to ideologies
- Where the “tranquility” of citizens comes from, and why it matters
- The moral value thinkers like Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk saw in conserving customs
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