At Wired, Laura Bullard writes that “Among the relatively few people associated with National Conservatism who do cite Schmitt openly in their own work are Thiel and Michael Anton, the essayist and sometime Trump administration official.” We may leave to one side the extent to which I am “associated” with National Conservatism. I did not... Read more about: Refuting the Schmitt Smear The post Refuting the Schmitt Smear appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
During my three-month research stay at the German Historical Institute in Paris, I have been working on a project that investigates the ideological and intellectual entanglements between the German Konservative...| Dialog und Austausch
Legal theorist Richard Sherwin discusses the emotional and axiological excess underneath the passion to change constitutions.| Blog of the APA
Telos 208 (Fall 2024): Carl Schmitt and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. It hardly needs mentioning that liberal democracy is facing a number of threats today, both internal and external. Even if the political parties in the United States cannot agree on the main source of the threats, they both believe that democracy is in danger. Democrats point to the January 6...| Telos Press
It was once (mostly) traditionally conservative and (sort of) intellectually rigorous. Now it platforms white nationalists and promotes authoritarianism.| The New Republic