Unless you’ve been on a mission to Mars the last few years, you’ll be aware of the lively public debate over the relationship between religion and civil government, the proper roles of …| Analogical Thoughts
Ali Harfouch argues that neoliberalism is a metaphysical order rooted in secularism, recasting humans as *homo oeconomicus* and deepening alienation from God, self, and world. The post On the Origins of Neoliberalism first appeared on Ummatics.| Ummatics
I am about to break my indication that I am unlikely to post again until after Jen’s death. I am bored to death in this Regis joint filled with old codgers with assorted disabilities. How many I will write is another question. I have been thinking about Nicholas Gruen’s sortition proposal: a third house of […]| Club Troppo
When I wrote Citizenship and Democratic Doubt more than twenty years ago, I was convinced that the Progressive tradition provides the resources for| University Press of Kansas
A new documentary reveals how his Kentucky roots shape not just his politics but his life.| Modern Age
14 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-48 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Daniel R. Hart | Production Editor: Christopher Ball Contents…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
For a change from reading Iain McGilchrist’s book The Matter With Things, which I am only doing very slowly, I have joined the Hannah Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading group, which is based in New Yo…| Jenny Connected
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL G…| Club Troppo
In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see thin…| The Scholar's Stage
There’s a strong gerontocratic tinge to US politics of late — the youngest of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren and Mitch McConnel is Chuck at 73. Many a theory has been propounded to explain this phenomenon, but a simple one shall be put to the test in a […]| Club Troppo
Critiquing Corbyn: capitalism isn’t about sharing There was much hype over Jeremy Corbyn’s successful campaign to lead the Labour Party. What has been largely absent from the debate is an evaluation of Corbyn’s economic ideas and assumptions. In The Economy in 2020, Corbyn set out what his economic policies will […]| The Occupied Times
There is a passage in Democracy in America that has appeared in many of my essays.” In the United States,” Tocqueville reports, “there is nothing the human will despairs of attaining through …| The Scholar's Stage
The left doesn’t actually care about nazis, because there are no nazis. They care about destroying you. Your history, your culture, your traditions, your future, your family, you. That is their ope…| Zippy Catholic
Liberalism is a theory or understanding of the just exercise of authority. It is specifically commitment to political freedom and, concomitantly, to equality before the law. Commitment to politica…| Zippy Catholic
I don’t know if the sleeping Anglo-European white warrior will ever really reawaken. It doesn’t seem that likely to me, frankly. It certainly isn’t something to hope for: if he does, the worl…| Zippy Catholic
Liberalism treats the question of what authoritative discriminations in particular are just, as if it were a question of whether authoritative discrimination in general is just.| Zippy Catholic
To say that Bob has the freedom to do X is to say that Bob has the authority to do X. To say that Bob has the authority to do X is to say that anyone who acts in a way contrary to Bob doing X may b…| Zippy Catholic
Xi Jinping’s decision to openly label the United States the source of China’s ills rolled through the newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week. Much has been written about th…| The Scholar's Stage
