Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2123670
D. Mahoney
Abstract This review article explores the American rediscovery in recent years of the political, historical, and spiritual wisdom of the Russian anti-totalitarian writer and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, especially the deepening appreciation of his two enduring masterworks, The Gulag Archipelago and the multivolume The Red Wheel. While Solzhenitsyn remains a contested and controversial figure for some progressives in the Western world, for many others he remains as much as an inspiration as he was during the classic age of ideology.
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Raymond Aron and His Dialogues in an Age of Ideologies examines the thought and rhetoric of the most interesting thinker of the twentieth century of whom no one has heard. This book investigates Raymond Aron’s conversations on politics during the Cold War with several of his more well-known interlocutors including Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Hayek, and Charles de Gaulle. Through exploring these dialogues on the subjects of Marxism, freedom, and nationalism, we see the prudence of Aron’s politics of understanding as well as the emphasis he places on and virtue he demonstrates in public discourse. Through his dialogues, Aron shows us not only how to think politically but also how to engage in constructive public debate. He stands as a model for us to emulate in our own age of ideologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2112885
M. Cronin
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2105586
Robert A. Ballingall
Abstract Scholars interested in the characterology presupposed by constitutional government have occasionally turned to Plato’s Laws, one of the earliest and most penetrating treatments of the subject. Even so, interpreters have neglected a vital tension that the Laws presents as coeval with lawfulness itself. Through a close reading of the dialogue’s opening passages, I argue that the rule of law for Plato is implicated in a certain paradox: it both prohibits and requires the imitation of god. Law cannot safely originate with human beings; yet human beings must involve themselves nonetheless in laying law down. Trustworthy lawgivers must revere the gods while at the same time emulating them, must somehow make law themselves while regarding that very task as beyond their ken. Although the political psychology of lawfulness would therefore seem incoherent, I conclude by surveying reasons for thinking this inference unwarranted.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2089520
Thomas S. Hibbs
Abstract The essay demonstrates the influence of Pascal on the thought of the contemporary American political theorist, Peter Lawler. Pascal’s reflections on the paradoxical nature of the human condition informs Lawler’s alternative to both modern optimistic rationalism and modern skeptical despair. Pascal’s thought helps Lawler to make sense of the creature that finds itself alternately at home, and lost, in the cosmos. It also provides him with the resources to engage philosophy on its own terms without sacrificing theological conviction.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2091877
M. Guerra, D. Mahoney
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2085979
James F. Pontuso
Abstract Becoming “Woke” Rightly Understood is an examination of Peter Augustine Lawler’s sometimes lighthearted, often ironic, and yet equally profound analysis of the current state of higher education. Lawler’s treatment is panoramic; it presents both the warts and beauty marks of higher education. The book itself is an example of the traditional goals of higher education. It forces readers to think by offering arguments for and against the liberal arts. Lawler is aware that people fully understand ideas if they work them out for themselves. His analysis wanders from pop culture to classical political philosophy with many stops in between. American Heresies and Higher Education forces readers to wonder, not only about higher education, but also about what is best for the human soul.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2085981
P. Seaton
Abstract During the Cold War, Peter Augustine Lawler was a close student of the great anti-Communist dissidents, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Váçlav Havel. They taught him not only about the nature of Soviet Communism, but about modernity tout court. From both, he learned a positive lesson as well, the reality of the human person. Falsified by modern thought and directly assaulted by communist ideocracy, the truth of the person was the chief positive lesson of the Cold War, and one that Peter applied to the postwar situation as well. In our day, there are comparable reasons for cultivating “a personal point of view.”
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2089521
R. Reinsch
Abstract This essay will articulate Lawler’s understanding of the significance of “Built Better Than They Knew Studies” or what he also later referred to as “America’s Constitutional Thomism” to show how this approach best demonstrates the truth about America. “Built Better Than They Knew Studies” is the attempt to demonstrate that America’s constitutional order was not exclusively built on modern ideological formulations but was a proper political achievement rooted in the rich ensemble of truths in the Western constitutional tradition. Three thinkers loom large in explaining its merits for American constitutionalism: Alexis de Tocqueville, Orestes A. Brownson, and John Courtney Murray, S.J. Joining together their contributions is the notion that while the American founding was an incredible achievement, it was the handiwork of human beings, and like anything else it had, amidst its merits, certain problems and deficiencies. The task is for American citizens to bring out the full truth in their republican citizenship and relational lives in civil society.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2022.2085982
Yuval Levin
Abstract The late Peter Lawler devoted a great deal of time and effort to public writing—work drawing on his deep knowledge and professional academic expertise but intended to shed light on events of the day for a wide, nonacademic readership. The purpose of that work was highly unusual: Lawler sought not so much to bring the tools of elite academic criticism to bear on the public situation as to bring the common sense of American culture (albeit refined and elevated through a learned Christian sensibility) to bear on the thought and behavior of American elites. If Lawler could be called a public intellectual, it is because he was an intellectual thinking on behalf of the public, and in ways that take seriously both the enormous benefits and the fundamentally tragic character of modern life. There is great value in such public writing, and Lawler offered an exceptional example of the kinds of virtues it involves.
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