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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
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
Volume 36 Issue 1 (Fall 2008)
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
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
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