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Volume 47 Issue 2, Winter 2021

The Political Significance of Friendship in Plato’s Lysis
by Lewis Fallis

The First Walgreen Lectures by Leo Strauss (1949)
by J. A. Colen & Anthony Vecchio

An Exchange

Schaefer contra Political Philosophy
by Edward J. Erler & Ken Masugi

Unretired: A Reply to “Schaefer contra Political Philosophy”
by David Lewis Schaefer

Review Essay

Nietzsche and Modernist Art, Part I: The Value of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar
by Borys M. Kowalsky & Joseph Phelan

Book Reviews

“From Reflection and Choice”: The Political Philosophy of the Federalist Papers and the Ratification Debate, edited by Will R. Jordan
by Kevin J. Burns

Thucydides on the Outbreak of War: Character and Contest by S. N. Jaffe
by Steven Forde

Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends by Flannery O’Connor
by Jerome C. Foss

Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History by Alexander Green
by Steven H. Frankel

Multiculturalism in Canada: Constructing a Model Multi-culture with Multicultural Values by Hugh Donald Forbes
by Thomas Powers

Taking Comedy Seriously: Stand-Up’s Dissident Potential in Mass Culture by Jennalee Donian
by Aaron Zubia

Volume 47 Issue 1, Fall 2020

The Value of the Feudalistic Relationship in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy
by Kojima Hidenobu

The Centrality of Convention in Hume’s Moral and Political Philosophy
by Aaron Zubia

Leo Strauss’s Walgreen Lectures on Machiavelli

The “Modern Principle”: The Second Walgreen Lectures  by Leo Strauss (1954)
by Anthony Vecchio & J. A. Colen

REVIEW ESSAYS

Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century by John Marini
by Borys M. Kowalsky & Patrick Malcolmson

The Habermas-Rawls Debate by James Gordon Finlayson
by David Lewis Schaefer

The Rediscovery of America: Essays by Harry V. Jaffa on the New Birth of Politics edited by Edward J. Erler and Ken Masugi
by David Lewis Schaefer

BOOK REVIEWS

Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric: Translated and with an Interpretive Essay by Robert Bartlett
reviewed by Christine J. Basil

Augustine’s Political Thought edited by Richard J. Dougherty
reviewed by Matthew Berry

Francis Bacon by David C. Innes
reviewed by Erin A. Dolgoy

Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age by Rémi Brague
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

The Postsecular Political Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas: Translating the Sacred by Dafydd Huw Rees
reviewed by Raymond Hain

Plato’s Tough Guys and Their Attachment to Justice by Peter J. Hansen
reviewed by Samuel Mead

The Lost Soul of the American Presidency by Stephen F. Knott
reviewed by Charles U. Zug

Volume 46, Issue 3 (Summer 2020)

Poetic Justice: An In-Depth Examination of Aristophanes’s Portrait of Socrates
by Lisa Leibowitz

A Modern in Disguise? Leo Strauss on Marsilius of Padua
by Alessandro Mulieri

Locke on the Limits of Human Understanding
by Devin Stauffer

Churchill’s Marlborough: The Character of a Trimmer
by Charles R. Sullivan

The Guide to The Guide: Some Observations on “How To Begin To Study The Guide of the Perplexed”
by Ying Zhang

BOOK REVIEWS

Dante’s Philosophical Life: Politics and Human Wisdom in “Purgatorio” by Paul Stern
reviewed by Marco Andreacchio

Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss: The Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment by David McIlwain
reviewed by Elizabeth Corey

The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens by Jacqueline de Romilly; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings
reviewed by Emily A. Davis

The Catholic Writings of Orestes Brownson by Michael P. Federici
reviewed by Jerome C. Foss

Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America by Mary Grabar
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom by Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert Jr.
reviewed by Raymond Hain

Democracy and Imperialism: Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies by William S. Smith
reviewed by Richard Jordan

Homer’s Hero: Human Excellence in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” by Michelle M. Kundmueller
reviewed by Spencer Krauss

Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex and Politics by Nadia Bou Ali and Rohit Goel
reviewed by Lucien Oulahbib

Briefwechsel, by Martin Heidegger, and
Fiala: Die Geschichte einer Versuchung by Karl Löwith
reviewed by Jan P. Schenkenberger

Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government by Joseph Postell
reviewed by Mark A. Scully

The Rediscovery of America: Essays by Harry V. Jaffa on the New Birth of Politics by Harry V. Jaffa, and
Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century by John Marini
reviewed by Benjamin Slomski

Sparta’s First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta by Paul A. Rahe
reviewed by Scott Yenor

Volume 46, Issue 2 (Spring 2020)

Montesquieu’s Considerations: A Case Study in the Cycle of Regimes
by Michael Anton

Leo Strauss in Italy: The “Three Waves” of Italian Strauss Studies
by Marco Menon

A Discourse on the Beginning of Tacitus’s Histories
by James H. Nichols Jr.

A Synoptic Introduction to the Ontological Background of Aristotle’s Political Theory
by Thomas L. Pangle

The Reception of Leo Strauss in China: Two Chinese Straussians, between Theological Temptation and Political Criticism
by Rong Hengying

REVIEW ESSAY

Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political and Philosophic by Ralph Lerner
reviewed by Paul Seaton

AN EXCHANGE ON CAREY:

Reviews of Natural Reason and Natural Law: An Assessment of the Straussian Criticisms of Thomas Aquinas by James Carey
individual reviews by Erik Dempsey, John W. Grant and Antonio Sosa

Reply to reviewers
by James Carey

Reply to James Carey
individual replies by Erik Dempsey and John Grant

AN EXCHANGE ON MENON’S STRAUSS:

Review of Scritti su filosofia e religione, by Leo Strauss edited by Raimondo Cubeddu and Marco Menon
by Marco Andreacchio

Reply to Marco Andreacchio
by Marco Menon

Reply to Marco Menon
by Marco Andreacchio

BOOK REVIEWS

Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
reviewed by Michael R. Gonzalez

The Strauss-Krüger Correspondence: Returning to Plato through Kant by Susan Meld Shell
reviewed by Till Kinzel

The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime: Political Theory in Literature by Elizabeth Amato
reviewed by Patrick Malcolmson

Kryzys nauki o polityce z perspektywy filozofii politycznych Leo Straussa i Erica Voegelina by Marek Pająk
reviewed by Tomasz Stefanek

Volume 46, Issue 1 (Fall 2019)

Leo Strauss on Exoteric Writing
by Hannes Kerber

An Interpretation of Machiavelli’s Favola
by Marco Menon

REVIEW ESSAYS

Ezekiel 38–48: A New Translation, with Introduction and Commentary by Stephen L. Cook
reviewed by Lloyd Robertson

Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Rediscovering Cicero by Gregory Bruce Smith
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

BOOK REVIEWS

The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know by George Hawley
reviewed by Matthew Berry

All’alba di un mondo nuovo by Angelo Panebianco and Sergio Belardinelli
reviewed by Marco Menon

The Kingdom of Man: Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project by Rémi Brague
reviewed by Will Morrisey

Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science by Delba P. Winthrop
reviewed by Mary P. Nichols

Educating Liberty: Democracy and Aristocracy in J. S. Mill’s Political Thought by Christopher Barker
reviewed by David A. Nordquest

Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
reviewed by Wendell O’Brien

Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s “Republic” by Jacob Howland
reviewed by Alexander Orwin

Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers by Geoffrey M. Vaughn
reviewed by Joshua Parens

Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body by Corine Pelluchon
reviewed by John Ray

Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad by Michael Walzer
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Von Carl Schmitt zu Hannah Arendt? by Sebastian Huhnholz
reviewed by Georg Simmerl

Volume 45, Issue 3 (Summer 2019)

On the Acharnians
by Robert C. Bartlett

The Socratic Founding of Economic Science
by Thomas L. Pangle

SYMPOSIUM ON STAUFFER’S HOBBES

Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer
reviewed by Douglas Kries, William Mathie, and Clifford Orwin

Response to Kries, Mathie, and Orwin
by Devin Stauffer

Replies to Devin Stauffer
by Clifford Orwin and William Mathie

REVIEW ESSAY, Part II

Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
by Marco Andreacchio

BOOK REVIEWS

Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics by John P. McCormick
reviewed by John Patrick Coby

Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination by Eugene Garver
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

Socrates and Divine Revelation by Lewis Fallis
reviewed by Douglas Kries

The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline by Dennis Hale
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Jean-François Lyotard by Kiff Bamford
reviewed by Ryan Scheerlinck

A Liberal Theory of Collective Rights by Michel Seymour
reviewed by Lee Ward

Volume 45, Issue 2 (Spring 2019)

Natural Religion in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws
by Ian Dagg

Aristotle’s “Reply” to Machiavelli on Morality
by David N. Levy

“Deceived by the Glory of Caesar”: Humility and Machiavelli’s Founder
by Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo

REVIEW ESSAYS

Mastery of Nature edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
by Marco Andreacchio

The Eccentric Core edited by Ronna Burger and Patrick Goodin
by Alex Priou

The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy
by David Lewis Schaefer

BOOK REVIEWS

The Techne of Giving by Timothy C. Campbell
reviewed by Victor Bruno

Orwell Your Orwell by David Ramsay Steele
reviewed by Jonathan Culp

Becoming Socrates by Alex Priou
reviewed by Fred Erdman

Roman Political Thought by Jed W. Atkins
reviewed by David Fott

The Idol of Our Age by Daniel J. Mahoney
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s Thrasymachean-Dionysian Socrates by Angel Jaramillo Torres
reviewed by Michael Harding

Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times edited by Richard Avramenko and Ethan Alexander-Davey
reviewed by Marjorie Jeffrey

The Bleak Political Implications of Socratic Religion by Shadia B. Drury
reviewed by Peter Minowitz

Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child by Eileen Hunt Botting
reviewed by Charles T. Rubin

From Oligarchy to Republicanism by Forrest A. Nabors
reviewed by Thomas Schneider

The Legitimacy of the Human by Rémi Brague
reviewed by Stephen Sims

Volume 45, Issue 1 (Fall 2019)

“Who Would Be Free, Themselves Must Strike the Blow”: Revolt and Rhetoric in Douglass’s Heroic Slave and Melville’s Benito Cereno
by Matthew S. Brogdon

Socrates’s Political Legacy: Xenophon’s Socratic Characters in Hellenica I and II
by Ariel Helfer

The Radicalness of Strauss’s On Tyranny
by Lorraine Smith Pangle

With Steel or Poison: Machiavelli on Conspiracy
by David Polansky and Daniel Schillinger

BOOK REVIEWS

Persian Letters by Montesquieu
reviewed by Ingrid Ashida

Legacies of Losing in American Politics by Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow
reviewed by Kevin J. Burns

Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe by Vickie B. Sullivan
reviewed by Peter Busch

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
reviewed by Rodrigo Chacón

Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Thirteen Plays by David Lowenthal
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski

The Woman Question in Plato’s “Republic” by Mary Townsend
reviewed by Elizabeth C’ de Baca Eastman

The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good by Frederick Lawrence
reviewed by Michael P. Foley

The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart
reviewed by Raymond Hain

Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer by Brian A. Smith
reviewed by Thomas R. Pope

Doubting Progress: Two Reviews A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics by Matthew W. Slaboch
individually reviewed by Lewis Hoss and Eno Trimçev

Volume 44, Issue 3 (Spring 2018)

Philosophy as Awareness of Fundamental Problems, or Leo Strauss’s Debt to Heidegger’s Aristotle
by Rodrigo Chacón

Why a World State Is Unnecessary: The Continuing Debate on World Government
by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

Reading Benardete: A New Parmenides
by Laurence Lampert

AN EXCHANGE Nietzsche’s Final Teaching by Ronald Beiner and Charles U. Zug
by Michael Allen Gillespie

On Nietzsche’s Final Teaching: A Response to My Critics
by Michael Allen Gillespie

Developing a Nietzschean Account of Musical Form: A Rejoinder to Michael Gillespie’s Response
by Charles U. Zug

REVIEW ESSAY

What Is Wrong with Human Rights?, La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme by Pierre Manent
reviewed by José A. Colen

BOOK REVIEWS

For Humanism edited by David Alderson and Robert Spencer
reviewed by Marco Andreacchio

Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror by Waller R. Newell
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski

James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection by Jeremy D. Bailey
reviewed by Jerome C. Foss

The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides by Alexander Green
reviewed by Raymond Hain

Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits? edited by Michael C. Desch
reviewed by Richard Jordan

Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
reviewed by Mary Mathie

“Philosophie und Religion”: Schellings Politische Philosophie by Ryan Scheerlinck
reviewed by Tyler Tritten

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Volume 44, Issue 2 (Winter 2018)

Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: An American Woman?
by Christine J. Basil & Rachel K. Alexander

Living Automatically, Living Remotely: On the Contemporary Reduction of Experience and Decision-Making Spaces
by Alfonso Galindo Hervás

Natural Justice and the Nature of Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by John C. Koritansky

In Search of the Comprehensive Science: The Way to Philosophy of Alfarabi’s Plato
by Alexander Orwin

REVIEW ESSAY

Flannery O’Connor: A Political Companion edited by Henry T. Edmondson III
reviewed Ralph C. Wood

BOOK REVIEWS

Machiavelli’s Politics by Catherine Zuckert
reviewed by Marco Andreacchio

Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair by Bonnie Honig
reviewed by Thomas M. J. Bateman

Fit for the Presidency? by Seymour Morris Jr.
reviewed by Thomas M. J. Bateman

Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict edited by David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara
reviewed by Jarrett A. Carty

The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom by Thomas G. West
reviewed by Eric R. Claeys

An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Elías José Palti
reviewed by Elizabeth C’de Baca Eastman

Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction by Nelson Lund
reviewed by Paul Ludwig

Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent by Alexander S. Duff
reviewed by Thomas Merrill

Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment by Denise Schaeffer
reviewed by Jason Neidleman

Founding Acts: Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age by Serdar Tekin
reviewed by John R. Pottenger

Volume 44, Issue 1 (Fall 2017)

Does Liberalism Lack Virtue? A Critique of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Reactionary Politics
by Jason W. Blakely

Bethlehemic Trilogy: Political Apology of the Davidic Kingship
by Nicholas J. Higgins

Political Philosophy and Democracy: On Xenophon’s Regime of the Athenians
by Gregory A. McBrayer

REVIEW ESSAYS:

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life by Heinrich Meier; translated by Robert Berman
reviewed by Ian Dagg

Leo Strauss on Science by Svetozar Minkov
reviewed by Nathan Dinneen

BOOK REVIEWS:

American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family edited by Patrick N. Cain and David Ramsey
reviewed by Francis J. Beckwith

Two Works by Marcus Tullius Cicero: On Duties translated by Benjamin Patrick Newton, and
On the Republic and On the Laws translated by David Fott
reviewed by Eli Friedland

God and PoliticsinEsther by Yoram Hazony
reviewed by Jonathan Gondelman

Mad Men: The Death and Redemption of American Democracy edited by Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moore
reviewed by Katherine Paton Hoss

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion by Heinrich Meier, translated by Robert Berman
reviewed by Douglas Kries

A Fortunate Universe by Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes
reviewed by Tucker Landy

Montesquieu’s Political Economy by Andrew Scott Bibby
reviewed by John Peterson

On Civic Republicanism by Pierre Manent, edited by Geoffrey, C. Kellow and Neven Leddy
reviewed by Nathan Pinkoski

Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Spirit of Moderation,edited by Giorgi Areshidze, Paul O. Carrese, and Suzanna Sherry
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics by Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber, translated by Jeff Fort
reviewed by Susan Meld Shell

Persecution or Toleration by Adam Wolfson
reviewed by Cole Simmons

Redefining the Muslim Community by Alexander Orwin
reviewed by Karen Taliaferro

The Framers’ Coup by Michael J. Klarman
reviewed by Quentin Taylor

Volume 43, Issue 3 (Spring 2017)

The Political Theorizing of Aeschylus’s Persians
by Thornton Lockwood

The Qur’an, Reason, and Revelation: Islamic Revelation and Its Relationship with Reason and Philosophy
by Rasoul Namazi

Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Discourses: A Recently Discovered Lecture edited by Rasoul Namazi
by Leo Strauss

BOOK REVIEWS:

On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
reviewed by J. A. Colen

Rawls’s Political Liberalism edited by Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum, and
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon edited by Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy
reviewed by Jerome C. Foss

Cicero’s Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy by Walter Nicgorski
reviewed by David Fott

The Book of Job: A New Translation with In-Depth Commentary by Robert D. Sacks
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

The Second Birth: On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence by Tilo Schabert; translated by Javier Ibáñez-Noé
reviewed by Lindsay Glover

Cartesian Psychophysics and the Whole Nature of Man by Richard F. Hassing
reviewed by Pamela Kraus

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Steven B. Smith
reviewed by Haig Patapan

The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship by John von Heyking
reviewed by Nathan Pinkoski

Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates by Robert C. Bartlett
reviewed by Linda R. Rabieh

After One Hundred and Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition by Hillel Halkin
reviewed by Richard S. Ruderman

Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought edited by Timothy Burns
reviewed by Antoine P. St-Hilaire

Volume 43, Issue 2 (Winter 2017)

On Rousseau’s Confession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
by Hilail Gildin

Simon Stevin’s Vita Politica: Pre-provisional Morality?
by Daniel P. Maher

Poetry and Reason: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Rafael Major

Biblical Exegesis as a Way of Philosophizing: The Beginning and the End of Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed
by Ying Zhang

AN EXCHANGE:

The Challenge of Modernizing Seventeenth-Century English Political Texts: A Response to Foster
by Lee Ward

A Reply to Lee Ward
by David Foster

REVIEW ESSAY:

Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization by Peter J. Ahrensdorf
reviewed by Robert Goldberg

BOOK REVIEWS:

Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought edited by Christopher Lynch and Jonathan Marks
reviewed by Stephen A. Block

The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science by Dustin Sebell
reviewed by Eric Buzzetti

The Philosopher’s English King: Shakespeare’s Henriad as Political Philosophy by Leon Harold Craig
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski

Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster by Hugo Slim
reviewed by Joshua D. King

The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law by S. Adam Seagrave
reviewed by Peter McNamara

Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge by Pierre Manent; translated by Ralph C. Hancock
reviewed by Deborah O’Malley

Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus by Eric Buzzetti
reviewed by Lorraine Pangle

Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet by Leon Harold Craig
reviewed by Nathan Pinkoski

Arendt’s Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship by Jonathan Peter Schwartz
reviewed by Manu Samnotra

Volume 43, Issue 1  (Winter 2017)

Tributes to Hilail Gilden

Tim Burns, Marco Andrecchio, Javier Berzal de Dios, David Lewis Schaefer & John F. Wilson

ARTICLES:

Does Toleration Require Religious Skepticism? An Examination of Locke’s Letters on Toleration and Essay concerning Human Understanding
by Giorgi Areshidze

Nietzsche, Tocqueville, and Maritain: On the Secularization of Religion as the Source of Modern Democracy
by Robert P. Kraynak

Sculpting Modernity: Machiavelli and Michelangelo’s David
by Christopher Scott McClure

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism by Jon D. Levenson
reviewed y Allan Arkush

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich
by D. N. Byrne

Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy by Aishwary Kumar
reviewed by Christopher Colmo

Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting by Richard L. Velkley
reviewed by Alexander Duff

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Ward
reviewed by David Foster

Thomas More: Why Patron of Statesmen? edited by Travis Curtright
reviewed by Martha Rice Martini

Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy by Joshua Parens
reviewed by Alexander Orwin

Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy edited by Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd
reviewed by Rene Paddags

The Free Animal: Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature by Lee MacLean
reviewed by Rene Paddags

Terrorism Unjustified: The Use and Misuse of Political Violence by Vicente Medina
reviewed by Jonathan W. Pidluzny

Alfarabi: The Political Writings, Volume II by Charles E. Butterworth
reviewed by Ahmed Ali Siddiqi

Machiavelli’s Legacy: “The Prince” after Five Hundred Years edited by Timothy Fuller
reviewed by Vickie B. Sullivan

Volume 42 Issue 3 (Spring 2016)

Holbein and Plato on the Quadrivium
by David Foster

A Woman’s Laws and a Man’s: Eros and Thumos in Rousseau’s Julie, or The New Heloise (1761) and The Deer Hunter (1978)
by Nelson Lund

Socrates’s Argument for the Superiority of the Life Dedicated to Politics
by Thomas L. Pangle

REVIEW ESSAYS:

How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato’s “Protagoras,” “Charades,” and “Republic” by Laurence Lampert
reviewed by Liu Xiaofeng

The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Rights edited by Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty; Libertarian Philosophy in the Real World: The Politics of Natural Rights by Mark D. Friedman;
The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism by Steven Wall
reviewed by Matthew Post

AN EXCHANGE Reply to Antoine Pageau St.-Hilaire’s Review of After Leo Strauss: New Directions in Platonic Political Philosophy
reviewed by Tucker Landy

Strauss’s Platonism and the Fate of Metaphysics: A Rejoinder to Tucker Landy’s Reply
reviewed by Antoine P. St-Hilaire

BOOK REVIEWS:

Arendtian Constitutionalism: Law, Politics and the Order of Freedom by Christian Volk
reviewed by Rodrigo Chacón

Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Alex P. Jassen
reviewed by Ross J. Corbett

On Sovereignty and other Political Delusions by Joan Cocks;
Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism by Sharon Krause
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski

On Plato’s “Euthyphro” by Ronna Burger
reviewed by Lewis Fallis

Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters by Ronald Beiner
reviewed by Hannes Kerber

Western Civilization and the Academy by Bradley C. S. Watson
reviewed by Pavlos Leonidas Papadopoulos

Democracy in Decline? by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner
reviewed by Antonio Sosa

Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville by J. Judd Owen
reviewed by Dana Jalbert Stauffer

The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience by Alan E. Johnson
reviewed by John B. Tieder Jr.

The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy by Lorna Finlayson
reviewed by Shawn Welnak

Volume 42 Issue 2 (Winter 2016)

Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China
by Xiaofeng Liu

Nietzsche’s Politics of Writing: Some Preliminary Considerations on Beyond Good and Evil
by Ryan Scheerlinck

Machiavelli’s Inflationary Economy of Violence: Notes on the Story of Agathocles
by Gregory S. Weiner

BOOK REVIEWS

What Would Socrates Do? by Joel Alden Schlosser
reviewed by Dwight Allman

Wily Elites and Spirited Peoples in Machiavelli’s Republicanism by David N. Levy
reviewed by Jarrett Carty

Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy by Gene Fendt
reviewed by J. A. Colen

The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality by David Peddle
reviewed by Jerome C. Foss

Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It by Eva Brann
reviewed by Bryan-Paul Frost

After Leo Strauss by Tucker Landy
reviewed by A. Pageau St-Hilaire

Recollecting Dante’s Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin by Barry Craig and Sara MacDonald
reviewed by Charles T. Rubin

Modern and American Dignity by Peter Augustine Lawler
reviewed by Thomas E. Schneider

Leo Strauss: Man of Peace by Robert Howse
reviewed by G. T. Sigalet

Volume 42 Issue 1 (Fall 2015)

Socrates’s Spirited Defense of Knowledge: Continence, Incontinence, and Human Action in Book VII of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by Stephen A. Block & Patrick Cain

Reputation and Virtue: The Rhetorical Achievement of Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology
by Kazutaka Kondo

On “The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed”: Aporia and Euporia
by Michael Millerman

The Spirit of the Age: J. S. Mill’s Radical Manifesto
by Quentin Taylor

BOOK REVIEWS

Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom by Mary P. Nichols
reviewed by Joseph Alulis

Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer
reviewed by Jeffrey A. Bernstein

Leo Strauss: On the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History by Jeffrey Bernstein;
Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings edited by Kenneth Hart Green;
Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides by Kenneth Hart Green;
reviewed by Steven Frankel

Redeeming the Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli
reviewed by Gregory A. McBrayer

Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life: Reading “What Is Political Philosophy?” edited by Rafael Major
reviewed by Susan McWilliams

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful edited by Paul Guyer
reviewed by Frank N. Pagano

In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin edited by Andrea Radasanu
reviewed by David Lewis Schaefer

Democracy in Decline: Steps in the Wrong Direction by James Allan
reviewed by Thomas E. Schneider

Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept by Dieter Grimm
reviewed by Stephen Sims

DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 41 Issue 3 (Spring 2015) &
Volume 41 Issue 2 (Fall 2014)

Volume 41 Issue 2 (Fall 2014)

The Unbridled Tongue: Plato, Parrhesia, and Philosophy
by Sophie Bourgault

Fulfillment in As You Like It
by Richard Burrow

Strauss’s Machiavelli and Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor
by Alexandru Racu

BOOK REVIEWS

Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism: Another Reason, Another Enlightenment by Corine Pelluchon
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life by Thomas L. Pangle and J. Harvey Lomax
reviewed by Michael Harding

Locke, Science, and Politics by Steven Forde
reviewed by Will Morrisey

Volume 41 Issue 3 (Spring 2015)

Happy City, Happy Citizens? The Common Good and the Private Good in Plato’s Republic
by Jonathan Culp

The Problematic Power of Musical Instruments in the Bible
by Aryeh Tepper

Ancients and Moderns under the Empire of Circe: Machiavelli’s The Ass
Translation and Commentary by Julien Carriere & Steven Berg

Liberal Education Imperiled: Toward a Resurrection of Reason and Revelation in Higher Education
by Erik S. Root

BOOK REVIEWS

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn translated and edited by Martin D. Yaffe
reviewed by Fred Baumann

On the God of the Christians (and on one or two others) by Rémi Brague
reviewed by Gregory A. McBrayer

Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom by Timothy W. Burns
reviewed by Rafael Major

DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 41 Issue 1 (Spring 2014) &
Volume 40 Issue 3 (Winter 2014)

Philosophia and the Love of Wisdom
by Joshua I. Weinstein

Aristotle, Locke, and the American Founding: The Real Truth about Leo Strauss
by Edward J. Erler

Spinoza’s Subversive Textbook
by Jeremy Bell

BOOK REVIEWS

Beginning Biblical Hebrew: Intentionality and Grammar by Robert D. Sacks
reviewed by Steven H. Frankel

Tyranny: A New Interpretation by Waller R. Newell
reviewed by L. Joseph Hebert

Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? by Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole
reviewed by Mark Hoipkemier

SPECIAL REVIEW ESSAY

Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine and Michael Zuckert edited by Ann and Lee Ward
reviewed by Will Morrisey

Volume 40 Issue 2 (Fall 2013)

Socratic Testing: Protagoras 310a-314b
by John S. Treantafelles

The Book of Religion’s Political and Pedagogical Objectives
by Waseem El-Rayes

Unmasking Limbo: Reading Inferno as Key to Dante’s Comedy
by Marco Andreacchio

Freedom in Shakespeare’s English History Plays
by Chris Barker

The Pleasure of Philosophizing and Its Moral Foundation
by James Carey

Hermeneutics and Political Theory
by Jürgen Gebhardt

BOOK REVIEWS

The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau translated and edited by John T. Scott
reviewed by Gregory A. McBrayer

Reason, Tradition, and the Good: McIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory
by Jeffery L. Nicholas
reviewed by James Fetter

Volume 40 Issue 1 (Spring 2013)

The Dialectic of Political and Private Senses of Ethical Virtue in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by John Tutuska

The State of Philosophy and Thomas More’s Utopia
by Tom van Malssen

Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and the Reason-Revelation Problem
by Alberto Ghibelline

BOOK REVIEWS

Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature by Joshua Parens
reviewed by Jeffrey A. Bernstein

Ever Ancient, Ever New: Ruminations on the City, the Soul, and the Church by Ernest L. Fortin
reviewed by Scott Kuzner

After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy by Chilton Williamson Jr.
reviewed by Will Morrisey

The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship by Jeffrey Edward Green
reviewed by David Ragazzoni

Reason and Revelation before Historicism: Strauss and Fackenheim by Sharon Portnoff
reviewed by Martin J. Plax

Volume 39 Issue 3 (Fall 2012)

The Choice of Lives and the Virtue of Moderation
by Benjamin Lorch

The City of Arts, the City of Law, and the Problem of the End of Man: Maimonides’s Treatment of Final Causality in the Commentary on the “Mishnah”
by Steven Berg

A New Perspective on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
by Timothy W. Burns

Why Leo Strauss Matters Today
by Lucien Oulahbib

A Reply to Jeffrey Bernstein
by William Altman

Response to Altman
by Jeffrey Bernstein

DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 39 Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2012)

More Early Writings by Leo Strauss from the Jüdische Wochenzeitung für Cassel, Hessen und Waldeck (1925-1928) 
by Thomas Meyer with translation by Michael Zank

Reexamining Political Participation in Rousseau’s Political Thought: Does Citizens’ Political Participation Include Public Discussions and Debates?
by Jung In Kang

BOOK REVIEWS

A History of Trust in Ancient Greece by Steven Johnstone
reviewed by Catherine M. A. McCauliff

Plato and the Talmud by Jacob Howland
reviewed by Charles T. Rubin

Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty by Gerard B. Wegemer
reviewed by L. Joseph Hebert

Rousseau’s Platonic Enlightenment by David Lay WilliamsRousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion edited by Christopher Kelly
reviewed by René M. Paddags

The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism by William H. F. Altman
reviewed by Jeffrey Bernstein

The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896 by Daniel Klinghard
reviewed by Andrew Bramsen

Governing through Institution Building: Institutional Theory and Recent European Experiments in Democratic Organization by Johan P. Olsen
reviewed by Lawrence M. Mead

Reply to Leibowitz
by David Levy

Volume 39 Issue 1 (Winter 2011)

Aristotle’s Politics on the Hoof: Sparta, Crete, and Carthage
by Leslie G. Rubin

Dante’s Statius: The Comedy of Conversion
by Steven Berg

Dante’s Statius and Christianity: A Reading of Purgatorio XXI and XXII in Their Poetic Context
by Marco Andreacchio

David Hume’s Two Interpretations of Cartesian Doubt
by Hilail Gildin

Reply to Levy: Socrates’s Post-Delphic Refutations
by David Leibowitz

BOOK REVIEWS

Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture by Lambert Zuidervaart
reviewed by Cameron O’Bannon

Volume 38 Issue 3 (Fall 2011)

Kent’s “Obscurred Course”: A Covert Coup Attempt in 2.2-4 of Shakespeare’sKing Lear
by Michael McShane

Habermas between Athens and Jerusalem: Public Reason and Atheistic Theology
by Miguel Vatter

BOOK REVIEWS

The Ironic Defense of Socrates, by David Leibowitz
reviewed by David Levy

The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism by Gary McDowell
reviewed by Robert Faulkner

Church, State, and Original Intent by Donald L. Drakeman
reviewed by David F. Forte

Civil Religion: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy by Ronald Beiner
reviewed by Faisal Baluch

Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 by Gregory Claeys
reviewed by Will Morrisey

Volume 38 Issue 2 (Spring 2011)

Dialectic, Virtue, and Recollection in Plato’s “Meno”
by Laurence Berns

Maimonides on Piety and the Cure of the Soul: “Eight Chapters” 1-4
by Steven Berg

Social Ontology and the General Will: Hegel’s Critique of Rousseau
by J. Alden Stout

BOOK REVIEWS

Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young
reviewed by Ruth Abbey

Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times by Ralph Lerner
reviewed by Martin J. Plax

Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition by David Lewis Schaefer
reviewed by S. Adam Seagrave

Volume 38 Issue 1 (Fall 2011)

Marcellinus’ “Life of Thucydides,” translated, with an introductory essay 
by Timothy Burns

“Thumos” and Psychophysics in Descartes’s “Passions of the Soul” 
by Richard F. Hassing

Libertarianism Ancient and Modern: Reflections on the Strauss-Rothbard Debate 
by Colin D. Pearce

BOOK REVIEWS

Rousseau’s Critique of Science: A Commentary on the “Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts,” by Jeff J.S. Black
reviewed by Jonathan Culp

Volume 37 Issue 3 (Spring 2010)

Political Science and the Irrational: Plato’s “Alcibiades” 
by Christopher L. Lauriello

Creation as Parable in Maimonides’ “Guide of the Perplexed” 
by Roslyn Weiss

Questioning Northrop Frye’s Adaptation of Vico 
by Marco Andreacchio

BOOK REVIEWS

Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles’ Theban Plays by Peter J. Ahrensdorf
reviewed by Patrick Coby

Plato’s Meno translated  by George Anastaplo and Laurence Berns
by Mark Pryor

Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics by Ronna Burger
by Evanthia Speliotis

God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson by Vincent Phillip Muñoz
by Donald L. Drakeman

The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government by Will Morrisey
by W. B. Allen

Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India by Michael Curtis
by Ünew Daglie

Volume 37 Issue 2 (Winter 2010)

Thucydides’ Philosophic Turn to Causes 
by Bernard J. Dobski

Martin Luther’s Restoration of Temporal Government
by Jarrett A. Carty

Tocqueville on Human Nature and Natural Right 
by Donald J. Maletz

“Politics As Opposed to Tradition”: The Presence of Nietzsche and Spinoza in the “Zionist Essays” of Leo Strauss
by Robert Miner

BOOK REVIEWS

New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra by Jan H. Blits
reviewed by Abram N. Shulsky

Volume 37 Issue 1 (Summer 2009)

Redeeming Modernity: The Ascent of Eros and Wisdom in Hegel’s Phenomenology
by Waller R. Newell

Suffrage and Democracy in the Political Philosophy of John Locke
by Manfred Brocker

The Theory of Pleasure According to Epicurus by Victor Brochard trans.
by Eve Grace

BOOK REVIEWS

Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire by Ann Ward
by Paul D. Moreno

Men of Little Faith by Cecelia Kenyon
by Scott Kuzner

The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin by Lorraine Smith Pangle
by Peter McNamara

The Young Karl Marx by David Leopold
by Benli M. Sheather

Between Athens and Jerusalem by David Janssens
by Faisal Baluch