Pierre Manent

The Church’s respect for the nations derives from her respect for human communities. Continue Reading »

The Samaritan is none other than Jesus Christ. Christians, and no doubt many non-Christians, expect the Church to teach about Jesus Christ. Continue Reading »

We gave ourselves over to the State long ago, according it sovereignty over our lives. Continue Reading »

We French have for some years been overcome by a furor for republicanism and for citizenship. There is no activity so humble that it cannot take on an intimidating nobility as soon as it is associated with citizenship. The republic calls us, besieges us, smothers us—but where is the republic? Are . . . . Continue Reading »

The French are exhausted, but they are first of all perplexed, lost. Things were not supposed to happen this way. Continue Reading »

For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially political. It was the great refusal, embodied by General Charles de Gaulle, to accept the defeat of June 1940. With that refusal came a determined commitment to reestablish national sovereignty. . . . . Continue Reading »

Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian proposition and diverts it toward this world. It was not so long ago that communism transformed charity for the poor into hatred for capitalist society and ultimately for every society that . . . . Continue Reading »

Leo Strauss is the thinker who in the last few decades has contributed the most to the renewed examination of the polarity between Athens and Jerusalem, reason and revelation. Tertullian famously stressed this contrast to the benefit of Jerusalem rather than Athens, but Strauss brings to the . . . . Continue Reading »

It could be said that the twentieth century has witnessed the disappearance, or withering away, of political philosophy. An old“fashioned empirical proof of this statement is easy to produce: certainly no Hegel, no Marx, even no Comte, has lived in our century, able to convey to the few and the . . . . Continue Reading »