Volumes 25 – 36

Volume 36 Issue 3 (Summer 2009)

The Problem of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology
by Anna Schmidt

REVIEW ESSAY

What is a Fascist? Goldberg and Xenos on Fascism and Leo Strauss
by James Costopoulos

Beyond Ancients, Moderns, Heroes, and Villains: Thinking About the Founding with Richard Zinman
by Alan Gibson

Diodotus and Thucydides
by Christopher Lewis Lauriello

Postscript to “A Report on Leo Strauss’s Course on Giambattista Vico”
by Wayne Ambler

Addenda and Corrigenda
by Emmanuel Petard

Volume 36 Issue 2 (Winter 2009)

Review-Essay: Thinking about the Founding 
by M. Richard Zinman

Lucrezia in Mandragola: Machiavelli’s New Prince 
by Heather Hadar Wright

On Strauss on Vico: A Report on Leo Strauss’s Course on Giambattista Vico 
by Wayne Ambler

How Lincoln Defended Himself against the Charge of Religious Infidelity
by David Lowenthal

BOOK REVIEWS

Vico and Plato, by Nancy du Bois
by Marco Andreacchio

Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror by Michael Burleigh
by Marcus Jürgen Gebhardt

SPECIAL ISSUE
Volume 36 Issue 1 (Fall 2008)

“Restatement” (Critical Edition) by Leo Strauss
by Emmanuel Petard

Volume 35 Issue 3 (Summer 2008)

Hares, Hounds, Herds, and Hives in Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”
by Christopher Whidden

Royal Monarchy: “Absolute” Sovereignty in Jean Bodin’s Six Books of the “Republic”
by John F. Wilson

The Human Good and the Problem of Bacon’s Intention
by Svetozar Minkov

BOOK REVIEWS

The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies by Roslyn Weiss
by Paul J. Diduch

Plato: “Protagoras” and “Meno” translated by Robert C. Barlett
by Andrea L. Kowalchuk

Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship by Michael D. Chan
by Will Morrisey

The End of the Ancient Republic: Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” by Jan H. Blits
by Matthew Holbreich

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought edited by Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield
by Maureen Feder-Marcus

Volume 35 Issue 2 (Spring 2008)

Hares, Hounds, Herds, and Hives in Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”
by Christopher Whidden

Royal Monarchy: “Absolute” Sovereignty in Jean Bodin’s Six Books of the “Republic”
by John F. Wilson

The Human Good and the Problem of Bacon’s Intention
by Svetozar Minkov

BOOK REVIEWS

The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies by Roslyn Weiss
by Paul J. Diduch

Plato: “Protagoras” and “Meno” translated by Robert C. Barlett
by Andrea L. Kowalchuk

Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship by Michael D. Chan
by Will Morrisey

The End of the Ancient Republic: Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” by Jan H. Blits
by Matthew Holbreich

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought edited by Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield
by Maureen Feder-Marcus

Volume 35 Issue 1 (Fall 2007)

Leo Strauss on the Understanding of the Politically Better and Worse 
by Hilail Gildin

Beyond Struggle and Power: Heidegger’s Secret Resistance
by Richard Polt

BOOK REVIEWS

An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions: Introducing Alfarabi by Joshua Parens
by Ann C. Wymann

Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy by Mark S. Cladis
by Steven Eide

Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace by Otfried Höfee
by Jeffrey Church

The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville edited by Cheryl B.Welch
by Will Morrisey

Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen by Mary Nichols
by Natalie Elliot

Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times edited by Eduardo A.Velásqueeze
by David Thunder

Volume 34 Issue 3 (Summer 2007)

On Hamlet and the Reformation: “To Show the Very Age and Body of the Time His Form and Pressure” 
by Mark A. McDonald

BOOK REVIEWS

John Locke’s Moral Revolution: From Natural Law to Moral Relativism by Samuel Zinaich Jr. 
by Steven Eide

Eros Turannos: Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève Debate on Tyranny by Aakash Singh
by Üner Daglier

Democracy: A History by John Dunn
by David Lewis Schaefer

Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick
by Gary M. Kelly

Volume 34 Issue 2 (Spring 2007)

Two Tales of Tyranny 
by Mark Kremer

Politics and Dialogue in the Philebus 
by James L. Wood

Deception in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
by Christopher Whidden

BOOK REVIEWS

The Case for Public Morality: Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography, by Harry M. Clor
by Fred Baumann

Learning from Aristotle:
Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics by Mary P. Nichols;
Aristotle’s “Best Regime”: Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law by Clifford Angell Bates; and
Aristotle and the Recovery of Citizenship by Susan Collins
by Will Morrisey

Volume 34 Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2006)

Learning without Teaching: Recollection in the Meno 
by Roslyn Weiss

Adam Smith, the Concept of Leisure, and the Division of Labor
by Brian Smith

Beyond Historicism: Collingwood, Strauss, Momigliano 
by Carlo Altini

The Politics of Encroachment: Thomas Mann’s Critique of Democracy 
by Scott Roulier

BOOK REVIEWS

John Locke and the Biblical Foundations of Modernity: The Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker
by Cameron Wybrow

Volume 33 Issue 3 (Summer 2006)

The Mythology of Philosophy: Plato’s Republic and the Odyssey of the Soul 
by Jacob Howland

Shakespeare and the Politics of Honor: Purpose and Performance in Julius Ceaser
by Suzanne Smith

Civil Liberty and Philosophic Liberty in John Milton’s Areopagitica
by Paul M. Dowling

On What It Means to Govern All One’s Affairs “Certo Consilio”: A Note on Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
by Paul J. Bagley

BOOK REVIEWS

The Unity of Plato’s “Gorgias”: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life by Devin Stauffer
reviewed by Kevin M. Cherry

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought by Jerry Weinberger 
reviewd by Svetozar Minkov

Volume 33 Issue 2 (Spring 2006)

Wrath and Justice in Homer’s Achilles 
by Mark J. Lutz

The Strategic Use of Myth in the Protagoras and Meno
by Roslyn Weiss

What Is Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology? 
by Jianhong Chen

Thomas Aquinas Meets Thomas Jefferson 
by Harry V. Jaffa

DISCUSSION Strauss and Christianity 
by Corine Pelluchon

BOOK REVIEWS

From Kant and Royce to Heidegger and Are We IN Time? by Charles Shelver
reviewed by Maureen Feder-Marcus

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin
reviewed by Alex Harvey

Volume 33 Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2005)

The Two Ways: Egypt and Israel in the Torah
by David Azerrad

Prince Harry: Shakespeare’s Critique of Machiavelli
by Avery Plaw

The Unbloody Sacrifice: The Catholic Theology of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
by Dennis Teti

A Change of Orientation: Leo Strauss’s “Comments” on Carl Schmitt Revisited
by David Janssens

BOOK REVIEWS

Leo Strauss and His Legacy: A Bibliography edited by John A. Murley
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Volume 32 Issue 3 (Summer 2005)

Strauss and Cohen: The Question of Enlightened Judaism 
by Corine Pelluchon

DISCUSSION On Michael Zuckert’s Launching Liberalism 
by Peter C. Myers

On Michael Zuckert’s Locke 
by David Lewis Schaefer

Reconsidering Lockean Rights Theory: A Reply to My Critics 
by Michael Zuckert

BOOK REVIEWS

Anne Norton and the “Straussian” Cabal: How Not to Write a Book 
reviewed by James Costopoulos

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire 
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Nicholas Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography 
reviewed by James N. Jordan

Volume 32 Issue 2 (Spring 2005)

Maimonides on Free Will at the Societal Level 
by Berel Dov Lerner

“To Order Well the State”: the Politics of Titus Andronicus
by Quentin Taylor

A Reconciliation of Kant’s Views on Revolution
by Chris W. Surprenant

BOOK REVIEWS

Martin D. Yaffe, trans., Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise 
by Steven Frankel

Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times 
by Morton J. Frisch

Thomas L. Pangle, Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham 
by William Mathie

Volume 32 Issue 1 (Winter 2004-05)

Priam The Patriarch, His City and His Sons 
by Mera Flaumenhaft

Civilization and Barbarism: The Somber Liberalism of Domingo Sarmiento 
by Peter J. Ahrensdorf

The Thumotic and the Erotic Soul: Seth Benardete on Platonic Psychology 
by Ronna Berger

DISCUSSION Darwinism, Magnanimity, and Modernity 
by Carson Holloway

BOOK REVIEWS

The Dialogue in Hell, by Maurice Joly
reviewed by Steven Frankel

On Two Wings by Michael Novak and The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, by Frank Lambert  reviewed by Phillip Muñoz

Volume 31 Issue 3 (Summer 2004)

Chaucer’s Dialectic: How the Establishment Theology is Subjected to Scrutiny in Five Canterbury Tales 
by Barbara Tovey

Humanity and Happiness: Philosophic Treatment of Happiness in a Non-Teleological World 
by Scott Yenor

DISCUSSION Ascending with Socrates: Plato’s Use of Homeric Imagery in the Symposium 
by Zdravko Planinc

Volume 31 Issue 2 (Spring 2004)

Moses Rhetor 
by Jules Gleicher

The Politics of Family and Friends in Aristotle and Montaigne
by Ethan J. Leib

That All Tragedy is Local: Book 18 of Spirit of the Laws 
by W.B. Allen

BOOK REVIEWS

Aristide Tessitore, Reading Aristotle’s “Ethics”: Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy 
by Arcelia Rodriguez

Ralph Lerner, Maimonides’ Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief 
by Eduardo Frajman

Volume 31 Issue 1 (Fall 2003)

Two Whig Views of the American Revolution: Adam Ferguson’s Response to Richard Price 
by Ronald Hamowy

DISCUSSION Mind Your Own Business: The Trouble with Justice in Plato’s Republic 
by Patrick Coby

Katabasis in Plato’s Symposium 
by Sean Steel

BOOK REVIEWS

The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon R. Kass 
by Martin Yaffe

Colloquial Hermeneutics: Eva Brann’s Odyssey
by Mera Flaumenhaft

Our Attraction to Justice 
by Wayne Ambler

The Idea of Enlightenment: A Post-Mortem Study by Robert C. Bartlett 
by Devin Stauffer

Volume 30 Issue 3 (Summer 2003)

Private and Public Virtue in Euripides’ Hecuba 
by David Corey & Cecil Eubanks

The Numerological Structure of the Spirit of the Laws 
by Robert McMahon

Lessing’s Nathan The Wise: The Religion of Reason in the House of Tradition 
by Gisela Berns

DISCUSSION The Philosopher and the City: Harry Jaffa and the Straussians 
by Scot Zentner

The Gospels According to Saints Isaac and Albert 
by Alex Harvey

BOOK REVIEWS

Acquaintance with the Absolute: The Philosophy of Yves R. Simon 
by Susan Orr

Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932) 
by Martin Yaffe

Volume 30 Issue 2 (Spring 2003)

Moses Dikastes 
by Jules Gleicher

New Developments in Xenophon Studies 
by Eric Buzzetti

The Parasite as Virtuoso: Sexual Desire and Political Order in Machiavelli’s Mandgragola 
by George Thomas

Oh, Brother! The Fraternity of Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato’s Gorgias 
by Roslyn Weiss

BOOK REVIEWS

Outline of a Phenomenology of Right, by Alexandre Kojève
by Kalev Pehme

Volume 30 Issue 1 (Fall 2002)

Story and Plot in the Book of Judges 
by Howard Moltz

On the Teachability of Virtue: Political Philosophy’s Paradox 
by John S. Treantafelles

Regionalism, Globalism and the Prospects for World Order: A Hegelian Approach 
by Steven V. Hicks

What is Political Theology? 
by Heinrich Meier

Love of Wisdom and Will to Order in Plato’s Timaeus: On Peter Kalkavage’s Translation
by Jacob Howland

A Review of Stephen Wolfram’s  A New Kind of Science 
by Alex Harvey

Volume 29 Issue 3 (Spring 2002)

Public Deliberation and Popular Government in Aristotle’s Politics 
by Quentin P. Taylor

The Problem of Law in Aristotle’s Politics: A Response to Quentin Taylor 
by Susan D. Collins

On Plutarch’s Life of Caesar 
by Jules Gleicher

“Mathematici” v. “Dogmatici”: Understanding the Realist Project Through Hobbes 
by Laurie M. Johnson Bagby

BOOK REVIEWS

L’athéisme, by Alexandre Kojève 
by Kalev Pehme

Prophets, Lawyers, Philosophers and Civilians: Storm Over the Constitution by Harry V. Jaffa
by Mark Lewis and Harrison Sheppard

Response to Lewis and Sheppard 
by Harry V. Jaffa

Volume 29 Issue 2 (Winter 2001-2)

Aristotle on “the Vulgar”: An Ethical and Social Examination
by Harry Adams

The Political and Theological Psychology of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
by Nasser Behnegar

‘…This Scattered Kingdom’: A Study of King Lear
by Zdravko Planinc

Modernity versus Mystery in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story ‘A View of the Woods’
by Henry T. Edmondson, III

A Triple Inquiry into the Human Center
by Richard Freis

The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey, by Seth Benardete by Seth Benardete
by Will Morrisey

Volume 29 Issue 1 (Fall 2001)

The Rhetoric of Xenophon and the Treatment of Justice in the Memorabilia 
by Eric Buzzetti

Rousseau and the Redemptive Mountain Village: The Way of Family, Work, Community, and Love 
by Mark S. Cladis

DISCUSSION The Internal Coherency of Locke’s Moral Views in the Questions Concerning the Law of Nature 
by Samuel Zinaich, Jr.

On the Lockean Project of a Natural Law Theory: Reply to Zinaich 
by Michael P. Zuckert

Correspondence 
by Alexandre Kojève and Carl Schmitt

Alexandre Kojeve, ‘Colonialism from a European Perspective’ 
by Erik De Vries (ed. and translator)

Volume 28 Issue 3 (Spring 2001)

Mordecai the Exilarch: Some Thoughts on the Book of Esther 
by Jules Gleicher

Putting Things Back Together in Kant 
by Laurence Berns

Shadows on the Cave Wall: Platonic Imagery in Lord Jim 
by John S. Kirby

Three Review Essays of Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Philosophy, History, and Jaffa’s Universe 
by Edward J. Erler

My Country, ‘Tis of Thee: Jaffa’s Defense of the Noble, the Holy, and the Just 
by Steve Sorenson

Jaffa’s Lincolnian Defense of the Founding 
by Thomas G. West

Volume 28 Issue 2 (Winter 2000-2001)

Rhetoric and Natural Rights in Algernon Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government
by Lee Ward

Democratic Theory and the Significance of Walter Kaufmann’s Aristotelian Nietzsche
by Ian Donaldson

BOOK REVIEWS

The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophic Trial by Jacob Howland
by Scott R. Hemmenway

What, Then, is Time? by Eva Brann
by Harrison Sheppard

Philosopher at Work: Essays by Yves R. Simon edited by Anthony O. Simon
by Susan Orr

Volume 28 Issue 1 (Fall 2000)

‘Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die?’ Francis Bacon on Making and Breaking Promises
by Heidi D. Studer

Marx’s Anomalous Reading of Spinoza
by Gordon Hull

Corrections to Leo Strauss, “German Nihilism”
by Wiebke Meier

Reply to Arnhart
by Richard F. Hassing

Reply to Lowenthal
by Edward J. Erler

Carl Schmitt, Heinrich Meier, and the End of Philosophy
by J. Harvey Lomax

American Law and the Past, Present, and Future of the American Regime
by Harrison J. Sheppard

BOOK REVIEWS

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
by Travis Curtright

Volume 27 Issue 3 (Spring 2000)

Friendship and Politics in Sophocles’ Philoctetes 
by Jonathan Badger

Natural Man as Imaginary Animal: The Challenge of Facts and the Place of Animal Life in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality 
by Nancy Yousef

The First Amendment and the Theology of Republican Government 
by Edward J. Erler

Response to Erler 
by David Lowenthal

Defending Natural Right 
by Larry Arnhart

The Scottish Enlightenment in Thought and Practice 
by Eduardo A. Velásquez

BOOK REVIEWS

On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues by Christopher Buell
by David Bolotin

International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order: An Essay on Hegel’s Universalism by Steven V. Hicks
by William L. McBride

Volume 27 Issue 2 (Winter 1999-2000)

Heidegger and Strauss: Temporality, Religion, and Philosophy 
by Laurence Berns

John Rawls and Liberal Neutrality 
by Tim Hurley

Darwinian Natural Right? 
by Richard F. Hassing

BOOK REVIEWS

American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding by Gary Rosen
by Christopher Flannery

Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought by Peter Augustine Lawler
by Paul Seaton

Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America by Peter Sacks
by Charles E. Butterworth

Volume 27 Issue 1 (Fall 1999)

Spelunking in the Unnatural Cave: Leo Strauss’s Ambiguous Tribute to Max Weber 
by Clark A. Merrill

Stanley Fish’s Miltonic Interpretation of Martin Luther King 
by William Walker

Constitutional Government and Judicial Power: The Political Science of The Federalist 
by Thomas L. Krannawitter

BOOK REVIEWS

A Cornucopia of Rousseau Translations: The Collected Writings of Rousseau Edited by Roger D. Masters and Christopher Kelly;
Rousseau, the Discourses, and other early Political Writings, and Rousseau, the Social Contract and other later Political Writings edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch
by Charles E. Butterworth

Nature, History, and the Human Individual: Modern Liberty and its Discontents by Pierre Manent
by Peter Augustine Lawler

The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism edited by Bradford P. Wilson and Ken Masugi
by Ronald J. Pestritto

Volume 26 Issue 3 (Spring 1999)

Laughing at Logoi: Laughter, Persuasion, and Glaucon’s Courage 
by Leighton Moore

Desire, Science, and Polity: Francis Bacon’s Account of Eros 
by Peter Pesic

German Nihilism 
by Leo Strauss (David Janssens and Daniel Tanguay, eds.)

Tractatus Liquorico-Philosophicus by Sigmund Steinkopf
by Joseph Carpino

BOOK REVIEWS

An Approach to Aristotle’s Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing by David Bolotin
by Susan Meld Shell

Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven B. Smith
by Paul Seaton

John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty by C. Bradley Thompson
by Christopher Flannery

From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution by Robert Goldwin
by Michael Zuckert

Volume 26 Issue 2 (Winter 1999)

Moses Politikos
by Jules Gleicher

The Limitations of Political Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato’s Charmides 
by Tucker Landy

Love of Gain, Philosophy and Tyranny: A Commentary on Plato’s Hipparchus 
by Jason A. Tipton

Changing Titles: Some Suggestions about the Use of ‘Prince’ in Machiavelli and Others 
by Larry Peterman

Leadership—Natural and Conventional—in Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ 
by Catharine H. Zuckert

Harry Neumann and the Political Piety of Rorty’s Postmodernism 
by Jon Fennell

BOOK REVIEWS

Aristotle’s “Physics”: A Guided Study by Joe Sachs
by George Anastaplo

Shakespeare and the Good Life by David Lowenthal
by Michael P. Zuckert

Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rüdiger Safranski
by Joan Stambaugh

Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics by Ruth Grant
by Patrick Coby

Leo Strauss and the American Right by Shadia Drury
by Susan Orr

Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography by Harry M. Clor
by Will Morrisey

Volume 26 Issue 1 (Fall 1998)

The Significance of the City in Genesis 1-11 
by Cameron Wybrow

The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary on Chapters 39-42 
by Robert D. Sacks

Drama, Narrative, and Socratic Eros in Plato’s Charmides 
by Andrew Reece

Liberty and Revolution in Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 
by Mark Kremer

Interpreting the Twofold Presentation of the Will to Power Doctrine in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra 
by Steven Berg

BOOK REVIEWS

Heidegger, the Polity, and National Socialism 
by Frank Schalow

Whose Pluralism? 
by Bruce W. Ballard