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Monday, November 9, 2020

On Friedrich Meinecke's Cosmopolitanism and the National State

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A few months ago, some friends and I read Friedrich Meinecke's wonderful Cosmopolitanism and the National State , originally published i...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Reading the 18th Brumaire in 2020

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 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte opens with one of the most famous lines in Marx's corpus: Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts ...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Leszek Kolakowski on Method

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Derek Parfit famously described two rival approaches to the history of philosophy as a contrast between grave-robbers and archaeologists. Gr...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Isaiah Berlin on the Relevance of the Nineteenth Century

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 From Isaiah Berlin's prologue to Political Ideas in the Romantic Age : Fascists and Communists, imperialists and totalitarians, liberal...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Frank Knight on the Self-Destruction of Liberalism

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I recently had occasion to read Frank Knight’s wonderful 1934 essay, “Economic Theory and Nationalism,” first presented at the annual Americ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Simone Weil on Nationalism and Rootedness

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Simone Weil's The Need for Roots contains some complicated and occasionally contradictory thoughts on nationalism. (Like the similarly c...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Simone Weil on Equality

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One of the fundamental human needs Simone Weil identifies in  The Need for Roots  is equality. As she puts it: Equality is a vital need of...
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...