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Daniel J. Mahoney
Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. His latest book, The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now, will be published by Encounter Books in spring 2025.
Articles by Daniel J. Mahoney
Simone Weil’s Conversion
Political thought at the crossroads of time and eternity.
Up from Bolshevism
Facing the Monster of Fanaticism
Raymond Aron’s classical sobriety.
Between Heaven and Earth
Eric Voegelin on the right use of reason.
A Friend of America and Liberty
Tocqueville appealed to America as the model of democracy built on the separations of powers, the rule of law, and the mores of a self-governing people.
Between Marx and Aquinas
Alasdair MacIntyre's rejection of liberalism.
The 1619 Lesson
If the young are taught the terrible falsehood that “racism is and always was the dominant ideology,” then the American experiment will hang by the thinnest thread, and we will have no Lincolns to save it.
To Conquer with Chivalry and Mercy
Churchill's River War is the work of a great statesman and thinker.
Ancient and Modern Liberty
The regime of modern liberty desperately needs old wisdom to avoid abandoning with contempt its own crucial preconditions.
Beyond the Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton: modern conservative.
Peter Augustine Lawler, 1951–2017
Remembering a scholar and friend.
Here the People Rule
Understanding the moral and intellectual foundations of democracy.
First Monday in October
A review of United States Reports, 1983-84, by Warren E. Burger et al.
The First Monday in October
A review of The Supreme Court Reporter, vol. 103, by Warren Burger et al.
Suicide Pact
A review of The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, by Jürgen Habermas
Anguished Patriot
A review of The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader, by Wilson Carey McWilliams, edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams; and Redeeming Democracy in America, by Wilson Carey McWilliams, edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliam
The Utopian Fallacy
A review of The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton
A Noble and Generous Soul
The life and soul of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Anti-anti-Americanism
Revel highlights the most irresponsible expressions of anti-American sentiment in Europe.
The War To End All Politics
Many Europeans have succumbed to the temptation of a transnational community that will put an end to politics