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Friday, April 18, 2025

Henry Jones Ford on the Monarchical Presidency

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In his 1919 Presidential Address to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Henry Jones Ford lays out the standar...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Herbert Croly Against Equal Opportunity

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In 1967, John Schaar published, “Equality of Opportunity, and Beyond” in Volume 9 of Nomos. The article remains, by my lights, the best or a...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Edward Gibbon's Smithian Defense of Luxury

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I wrote a post some time ago contrasting Adam Smith and Jean Jacques Rousseau on the utility of luxury consumption. Smith famously argues t...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Thomas Hobbes on Counsel vs. Command

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Thomas Hobbes' A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England lays out the basis of Hobbes' famous po...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Eulogy for Dimitrios Halikias (1925 - 2020)

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Last week marked the fifth anniversary of the death of my grandfather and namesake, Dimitrios Halikias. He was pre-deceased by my grandmothe...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Marx on Free Speech and Commerce

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In the news these days is another case involving a Christian business that refuses to provide services for a same-sex wedding. The core issu...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Schmitt and Foucault on Political Theology

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I have been struck in recent months by some similarities between Schmitt and Foucault. This post sketches one such similarity: The parallel ...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Sismondi and Third-Way Economics

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I recently read some Simonde de Sismondi, previously known to me only from Marx’s vitriolic attacks. The “Communist Manifesto,” for example...