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The Genius of Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journeyby david cayleypenn state, 560 pages, $44.95 Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was greatest—this learned...
Political educator
Our friends at The New Criterion have graciously allowed us this preview of a complementary article from their November issue. We hope you enjoy it. Pierre Manent Over the...
The Way of the Wicked
The Roots of Evilby john kekescornell university press, 261 pages, $29.95 Prowling Washington’s poorer neighborhoods some years back, John Allen raped, stole, mugged, assaulted, pimped, and dealt narcotics, until...
The Ineducable Left
The far left’s disgraceful response to September 11”it has temporized about terror, embraced moral equivalence between the Islamist fanatics who killed thousands of innocent Americans and the military actions...
In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
French philosopher Alain Finkiel kraut’s subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question: How did the West’s noble ideal of universal humanity”the belief that, beneath...
The Cultural Revolution of Fascism
The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascismby george l. mossehoward fertig. 230 pp. $35. Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.” So...
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
Not long before he died, the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin somberly summed up his, and our, age: “I have lived through most of the twentieth century without, I must...
Which Conservatism?
A Case for Conservatism.By John Kekes.Cornell University Press. 239 pp. $29.95. In his important 1997 book Against Liberalism, the moral philosopher John Kekes exposed the staggering incoherence of contemporary Anglo-American...
Modernity and Christianity Reconsidered
The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion By Marcel Gauchet. Tranlated by Oscar Burge, with an introduction by Charles Taylor Princeton University Press. 228 pp. $29.95...
Spiraling into Nothingness
Against Liberalism By John Kekes Cornell University Press. 244 pp. $29.95 I remember a lecture a few years back, heard when I was in graduate school, that provided one...
Tocqueville’s Mirror
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy By Pierre Manent Rowan & Littlefield, 148 pages, $40 To love democracy well, it is necessary to love it moderately.” So concludes French...
The Aronian Renewal
In Defence of Political Reason: Essays by Raymond Aron Edited by Daniel J. Mahoney Rowman & Littlefield, 187 pages, $ 19.95 It is ironic that Raymond Aron’s reputation is...
