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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Berlin on Rousseau: The Philosopher of the Lower-Middle Class

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Isaiah Berlin has probably one of the best readings of Rousseau (as in most philosophically exciting AND most in line with the authentic spi...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

James Kent on Alexander Hamilton

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Some interesting remarks from James Kent's " Memories of Alexander Hamilton ." What first struck Kent was Hamilton's ...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

Orwell on the National Anthem

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George Orwell's complex if deep sense of nationalism is well known. (Even if his distinction  between patriotism and nationalism is less...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Ernest Renan's Liberal Nationalism

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I recently had occasion to read Ernest Renan's famous 1882 lecture, " What is a Nation? " I'm told that this is something ...

Jacob Viner on Providence and the Invisible Hand

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I recently read Jacob Viner's The Role of Providence in the Social Order . The obligatory first thing to say about this work is how unim...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Funkenstein on Indeterminacy and Law

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I recently read Amos Funkenstein's chapter on divine providence and the invisible hand in his massive Theology and the Scientific Imagin...
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Saturday, May 9, 2020

Marx and Engels on Napoleon and Babeuf

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From Engels' " Progress of Social Reform on the Continent ," published in the Owenite, Chartist journal The Northern Star in 1...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Screwtape on Historicism

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From C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters , letter 27: The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Corn Laws and Witchcraft

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In his critique of the Corn Laws, Adam Smith argues that the ancient English laws against "engrossers and forestallers" derive fro...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Glimpses of Freedom in Marx

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Marx is notoriously unwilling to describe what communist society will actually look like. (He famously quipped that it is not his place to w...