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Volume 50, Issue 2, Winter 2024
Articles
Leo Strauss on the Rejection of Natural Right by the Social Sciences: A Lecture
by Emmanuel Patard
Speaking Differently: The “Many-Saying” Politics, Music,
and World of Homer’s Odyssey
by Rebecca LeMoine
Zarathustra’s Task and the Promise of Contemplation
by Lorraine Smith Pangle
Review Essay
Mary P. Nichols, Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the
“Nicomachean Ethics”
by Will Morrisey
Book Reviews
Mary Keys, Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine’s “City of God”
by Daniel E. Burns
Alex Priou, Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy before the Tribunal of
Science
by Nicolas Day
Volume 50, Issue 1, Fall 2023
Articles
The Crisis of the West and Strauss on Xenophon: A Prologue to a Comprehensive Study
by Eric Buzzetti
French Antecedents of Carl Schmitt’s Concrete-Order Thinking: From Georges Sorel’s Myth to Maurice Hauriou’s Institution
by Wojciech Engelking
Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin on Philosophy and Politics in Plato’s Republic
by Yashar Jeirani
Heidegger’s “Metametaphysics”: Heidegger on Modernity and Postmodernity
by Allen Porter
On Strauss on Xenophon’s Symposium
by Matthew Wells
Review Essays
Returning to Pascal? Pierre Manent on the Lost Origins of Political Modernity
by Alexis Carré
Charles Péguy: Eternity in Love with the Productions of Time
Ralph C. Wood
Book Reviews
Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus. Translated by Joe Sachs
by Robert C. Bartlett
Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Euthyphro”: The 1948 Notebook by Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov
by Steven H. Frankel
Rediscovering Political Friendship: Aristotle’s Theory & Modern Identity, Community, and Equality by Paul W. Ludwig
by S. N. Jaffe
The River War by Winston Churchill. Edited by James W. Muller
by Marjorie Jeffrey
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
by Joshua Parens
Volume 49, Issue 3, Spring 2023
Articles
On Higher Education and the Crisis of Our Time: A Lecture by Leo Strauss
by Hannes Kerber & Svetozar Y. Minkov
Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Cicero’s On the Orator
by David Fott
“Solomon’s Science”: Spinoza on the Possibility and Limits of Ancient Philosophy
by Robert Wyllie
Montaigne and the Theological-Political Problem
by Erfan Xia
Reviews
“Satanic,” “An Atheistic Doctrine of Woman”: A Review of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1951)
by Ida Friederike Görres
Flannery O’Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness by Jerome C. Foss
by Ralph C. Wood
What Happened to Civility: The Promise and Failure of Montaigne’s Modern Project by Ann Hartle
by Angela Knobel
Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought by Rasoul Namazi
by Alexander Orwin
Volume 49, Issue 2, Winter 2023
Essays in Honor of Christopher Kelly
Introduction
by Eve Grace
The Case Against (and For) Gulliver: An Introduction to Gulliver’s Travels
by Timothy Brennan
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Rousseau on the Subjection of Men
by Kimberley J. Burns, Daniel E. Burns
Beauty in Love and Speaking of Love: Lessons from the Phaedrus
by Robert Faulkner
Rousseau and the Metamorphoses of the I
by Claude Habib
“My Entire Philosophy”: The Project of Rousseau’s Lettres morales
by Ryan Patrick Hanley
The Victory of Sophistry in Plato’s Theaetetus
by Henry Higuera
Pascal and Rousseau
by Pierre Manent
A Socratic Pedagogy? Rousseau’s Response to D’Offreville
by Jean-François Perrin
Burke and the Politics of the Sublime (and Beautiful)
by Susan Meld Shell
Prospero’s Art: On Shakespeare’s The Tempest
by Nicholas C. Starr
Literary Theory in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
by John Uhr
Volume 49, Issue 1, Winter 2022
Question of Self-Reference in Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6
by Richard F. Hassing
Book Reviews
The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America, by Glenn Ellmers
by W. B. Allen
Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Block
by Elizabeth C’de Baca Eastman
Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith, edited by Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student
by Steven H. Frankel
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Nobility, by Daniel J. Mahoney
by Steven H. Frankel
L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Entre exemples et modèles,by Flora Champy
by Christopher Kelly
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism, edited by Catherine H. Zuckert
by Douglas Kries
Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Block
by Miguel Morgado
Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena, by Mark Blitz
by Will Morrisey
Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith, edited by Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student
by David Lewis Schaefer
Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, by Bradley C. S. Watson
by David Lewis Schaefer
Volume 48 Issue 3, Summer 2022
Thomas More’s Hermeneutic Politics
by Jason Blakely
“A Mysterious Communication”: Schopenhauer’s Will to Live in Conrad’s The Secret Sharer
by John Kirby
Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature as Foundational for His Political Philosophy
by Thomas L. Pangle
Timothy W. Burns, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education: An Exchange
Remarks on Timothy W. Burns’s Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
by Devin Stauffer
Reply to Devin Stauffer
by Timothy W. Burns
Heinrich Meier, What Is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra?: An Exchange
Book Review: What Is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra?, by Heinrich Meier
by Shilo Brooks
Review Essay: On Heinrich Meier’s What Is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation
by Laurence Lampert
A Short Response to a Polite Request
by Heinrich Meier
Reply to Heinrich Meier
by Laurence Lampert
Book Review
Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by Giorgos Kallis
by Jacob Boros
Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources, ed. Kenneth Hart Green and Martin D. Yaffe eds., by Emil Fackenheim
by Steven H. Frankel
Volume 48 Issue 2, Fall 2022
Plato’s Second Alcibiades [Or, On Prayer: Maieutic] A Literal Translation
by Eli Friedland
Adam Smith on Rousseau and the Origin of Languages
by Nelson Lund
Book Reviews
Heidegger: Zur Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung seiner Philosophie, by Oliver Precht
by Rodrigo Chacón
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America, by Michael D. Breidenbach
by Jerome C. Foss
Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums, by Hannes Kerber
by Till Kinzel
The Female Drama, by Charlotte C. S. Thomas
by Carol McNamara
Mighty Opposites: Machiavelli and Shakespeare Match Wits, by Michael Platt
by Will Morrisey
Wakefulness and World: An Invitation to Philosophy, by Matthew Linck
by Lewis Pearson
Volume 48 Issue 1, Fall 2021
Overcoming the Powerful Prejudice against Xenophon: A Debate between Leo Strauss and Friedrich Schleiermacher
by Iraj Azarfaza
Sanza Mezzo: A Reading of Dante’s Paradiso Cantos 5–7
by John F. Cornell
The Unfolding Plan of “Maxims and Arrows” in Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols
by Thomas L. Pangle
Book Reviews
Crisis of the Two Constitutions by Charles R. Kesler
by Francis J. Beckwith
Warspeak: Nietzsche’s Victory over Nihilism by Lise van Boxel
by Shilo Brooks
Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus by Leon R. Kass
by Steven H. Frankel
De Anima (On Soul) by Aristotle, Translated by David Bolotin
by Eli Friedland
Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau by Matthew D. Mendham
by Christopher Kelly
Una filosofia in esilio by Carlo Altini
by Marco Menon
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism by Ferenc Hörcher
by Miguel Morgado
The Music of Reason by Michael Davis
by Travis Mulroy
Reason and Character by Lorraine Smith Pangle
by April Dawn Olsen
Nature, Law, and the Sacred by Evanthia Speliotis
by Joshua Parens
Theory and Practice by Jacques Derrida
by Oliver Precht
Learning One’s Native Tongue by Tracy B. Strong
by Charles T. Rubin
Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics by Douglas I. Thompson
by David Lewis Schaefer
Property and the Pursuit of Happiness by Edward J. Erler and An Anti-Federalist Constitution by Michael J. Faber
by Thomas E. Schneider
America’s Revolutionary Mind by C. Bradley Thompson
by Lee Ward
Recovering the Liberal Spirit by Steven F. Pittz
by Jacob C. J. Wolf
Volume 47 Issue 3, Summer 2021
The Virtues and the Audience in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
by Ann Charney Colmo
Reasonable Foundations for Happiness: The Pursuit of Self-Knowledge in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
by Dustin Gish
Richard III, Moralist: Shakespeare’s Critique of the Politics of Christian Piety
by Dana Jalbert Stauffer
Review Essays
The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim: From Revelation to the Holocaust by Kenneth Hart Green
by Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar by Sebastian Schütze
by Borys M. Kowalsky
Book Reviews
The Spartan Drama of Plato’s “Laws” by Eli Friedland
by Robert A. Ballingall
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: two editions by Jeffrey Kahan and Jan Blits
by Adam M. Carrington
The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
by David Fott
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality by Alexis de Tocqueville
by Will Morrisey
Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture by Philipp von Wussow
by Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire
Justice Is Steady Work: A Conversation on Political Theory by Michael Walzer and Astrid von Busekist
by Benjamin Schvarcz
Montaigne: Life without Law by Pierre Manent
by Daniel Tanguay
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason by Pierre Manent
by Jonathan Yudelman
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
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
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
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
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