I work in editorial at a small book publishing company. Degrees in law and political philosophy, interests in psychoanalysis, Christian theology, Sufi monism, philosophy, and post-liberalism.
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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into …
In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler’s classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that …
Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by …
“The whole gave him a sensation, the vividness of which he could not explain, that Nature was always making quite mysterious jokes.”
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we …
John Gray's diagnosis of the slow decay of the liberal world order rings true. His reflections on the Russian war on Ukraine, as well as the history of the totalitarian Soviet Communist state, help to illustrate the mindset of the Russian people(s). His excoriating critique of so-called 'woke' ideology justifies a read by itself, as are his brief but illuminating relitigation of the ideas explored in Tom Holland's Dominion and Peter Turchin's End Times.
"Hyper-liberal ideology plays a number of roles. It operates as a rationale for a failing variety of capitalism, and a vehicle through which surplus elites struggle to secure a position of power in society. Insofar as it expresses a coherent set of ideas, it is the anti-Western creed of an antinomian intelligentsia that is ineffably Western. Psychologically, it provides an ersatz faith for those who cannot live without the hope of universal salvation inculcated by Christianity." …
John Gray's diagnosis of the slow decay of the liberal world order rings true. His reflections on the Russian war on Ukraine, as well as the history of the totalitarian Soviet Communist state, help to illustrate the mindset of the Russian people(s). His excoriating critique of so-called 'woke' ideology justifies a read by itself, as are his brief but illuminating relitigation of the ideas explored in Tom Holland's Dominion and Peter Turchin's End Times.
"Hyper-liberal ideology plays a number of roles. It operates as a rationale for a failing variety of capitalism, and a vehicle through which surplus elites struggle to secure a position of power in society. Insofar as it expresses a coherent set of ideas, it is the anti-Western creed of an antinomian intelligentsia that is ineffably Western. Psychologically, it provides an ersatz faith for those who cannot live without the hope of universal salvation inculcated by Christianity." (p. 110)
The idea that American conservatism is identical to classical liberalism--widely held since the 1960s--is seriously …
A fascinating genealogy of a distinctive Anglo-American tradition of conservatism, rooted in pragmatic empiricism, biblical tradition, and common law jurisprudence. Hazony succeeds in outlining a distinctive conservatist political philosophy as well as explaining many of its great historical merits.
He also provides a compelling critique of liberalism's inability to sustain its own conditions of possibility and the atomising effect it has on society, driving mental health disorders, loneliness, deaths of despair and a collapse in traditional family life.
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and …
In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man …
