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An Affirmative Defense of the Liberal Tradition
Freedom and Its Betrayal consists of reconstructions from transcripts and drafts of six lectures that Isaiah Berlin broadcast in 1952 on the BBC, and, new in this second edition, three early drafts of...
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A Marriage of Minds—Up to a Point
John Stuart Mill is a champion of liberty who today lacks sufficient liberal champions of his own. Erstwhile liberals have moved progressively forward to a world where restrictions on speech seem more...
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Respectable Partisans of Modern Liberty
Sir George Hayter's 'The House of Commons' (1833)Fifty years have passed since Harvey Mansfield’s path-breaking Statesmanship and Party Government first appeared. It is a book so good that Leo Strauss...
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Mark Blitz Replies to His Critics
In response to: Respectable Partisans of Modern Liberty Sir George Hayter's 'The House of Commons' (1833)The three replies to my essay are thoughtful discussions of important issues, and I thank the...
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Being and Nazism
Alexander S. Duff’s Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Dissent adds to the literature on this important and distasteful subject. Martin Heidegger’s radical understanding of human passions,...
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Machiavelli’s Common Good
Machiavelli’s Politics is aptly named. Catherine Zuckert’s new book concentrates intently on Niccolo Machiavelli’s judgment about how best to govern political communities in the ordinary sense—places...
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Montesquieu: From the Harem to the French Church and Court
Persian Letters may well be Montesquieu’s introduction to his own literary art—to how to write, and how to read.
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Defending Liberalism through Thick and Thin
Michael Walzer seeks to replace an approach to justice based on academic philosophers’ abstractions with a standpoint that respects political concreteness.
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