Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Case Closed?
Weighing the evidence in an ongoing controversy
Essays
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Case Closed?
Weighing the evidence in an ongoing controversy
Book Reviews
Al Smith and the Liberalism That Might Have Been
Alfred E. Smith has been called the most underappreciated political figure in 20th century America.
liberalchic.gov
The Internet poses a danger not so much to the deliberative republic as to liberalism.
Balancing Act: How We Won the Cold War
How the United States won the Cold War
A Noble Judicial Coup?
An analysis of the impact of Brown v. Board of Education
Reds in the White House
Americans have hardly faced up to the amazing extent of Soviet penetration into all areas of our national life, especially their infiltration of the highest levels of U.S. government.
Right, Law, and Justice at the End of History
A review of Alexandre Kojeve's most political book
Unworthy Lives and Unalienable Rights
The decline of the Hippocratic Oath and the rise of biomedical ethics.
Pride and Political Philosophy
Mansfield and McWilliams are two of the most distinguished practitioners of the ancient and honorable trade of political philosophy.
Pragmatism’s Four Horsemen
The core of pragmatism, according to Menand, is an idea about ideas: that they should never harden into ideologies.
Nazi Thinker
Ancient political philosophy is as significant an alternative to Heidegger as he is to it.
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold
We Americans typically serve and drink our wines at the wrong temperatures.
A Life in Three Movements
An interview with Raoul Berger.
