The Whole Way of Life
Blitz engages in a running debate between two principal contenders for the best regime: classical aristocracy and liberal democracy.
philosophy
Plutarch Without Parallel
The ancient world’s first man of letters.
American Pragmatist
William James and the modern sensibility.
David Hume and the Philosophical Life
Detachment was in his DNA.
Political Thought in an Age of Conformity
The consolations of philosophy.
Act Naturally
Pierre Manent's latest book attempts to reestablish and revive the natural law tradition.
Self-Driving, Not Self-Governing
What part of our humanity is lost when we think of our world and our place in it as governed by "progress?"