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Volume 45, Issue 1
(Spring 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 Ronald Beiner and Charles U. Zug
by Michael Allen Gillespie
On Nietzsche’s Final Teaching: A Response to My Critics
by Michael Allen Gillespie
Developing a Nietzschean Account of Musical Form: A Rejoinder to Michael Gillespie’s Response
by Charles U. Zug
REVIEW ESSAY
What Is Wrong with Human Rights? La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme by Pierre Manent
reviewed by José A. Colen
BOOK REVIEWS
For Humanism, edited by David Alderson and Robert Spencer
reviewed by Marco Andreacchio
Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror by Waller R. Newell
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski
James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection by Jeremy D. Bailey
reviewed by Jerome C. Foss
The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides by Alexander Green
reviewed by Raymond Hain
Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits?, edited by Michael C. Desch
reviewed by Richard Jordan
Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
reviewed by Mary Mathie
“Philosophie und Religion”: Schellings Politische Philosophie by Ryan Scheerlinck
reviewed by Tyler Tritten
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Volume 44, Issue 2 (Winter 2018)
Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: An American Woman?
by Christine J. Basil & Rachel K. Alexander
Living Automatically, Living Remotely: On the Contemporary Reduction of Experience and Decision-Making Spaces
by Alfonso Galindo Hervás
Natural Justice and the Nature of Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by John C. Koritansky
In Search of the Comprehensive Science: The Way to Philosophy of Alfarabi’s Plato
by Alexander Orwin
REVIEW ESSAY
Flannery O’Connor: A Political Companion, edited by Henry T. Edmondson III
reviewed Ralph C. Wood
BOOK REVIEWS
Machiavelli’s Politics by Catherine Zuckert
reviewed by Marco Andreacchio
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair by Bonnie Honig
reviewed by Thomas M. J. Bateman
Fit for the Presidency? by Seymour Morris Jr.
reviewed by Thomas M. J. Bateman
Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict, edited by David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara
reviewed by Jarrett A. Carty
The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom by Thomas G. West
reviewed by Eric R. Claeys
An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Elías José Palti
reviewed by Elizabeth C’de Baca Eastman
Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction by Nelson Lund
reviewed by Paul Ludwig
Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent by Alexander S. Duff
reviewed by Thomas Merrill
Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment by Denise Schaeffer
reviewed by Jason Neidleman
Founding Acts: Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age by Serdar Tekin
reviewed by John R. Pottenger
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Volume 44, Issue 1 (Fall 2017)
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:
Leo Strauss on Science by Svetozar Minkov reviewed by Nathan Dinneen
BOOK REVIEWS:
God and Politics in Esther by Yoram Hazony reviewed by Jonathan Gondelman
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
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
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Volume 43, Issue 3 (Spring 2017)
The Political Theorizing of Aeschylus’s Persians
by Thornton Lockwood
BOOK REVIEWS:
On Human Nature, by Roger Scruton
reviewed by J. A. Colen
Cartesian Psychophysics and the Whole Nature of Man by Richard F. Hassing
reviewed by Pamela Kraus
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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
AN EXCHANGE:
A Reply to Lee Ward
by David Foster
REVIEW ESSAY:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet by Leon Harold Craig
reviewed by Nathan Pinkoski
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Volume 43, Issue 1 (Winter 2017)
ARTICLES:
Sculpting Modernity: Machiavelli and Michelangelo’s David
by Christopher Scott McClure
BOOK REVIEWS:
Thomas More: Why Patron of Statesmen? edited by Travis Curtright
reviewed by Martha Rice Martini
The Free Animal: Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature by Lee MacLean
reviewed by Rene Paddags
Alfarabi: The Political Writings, Volume II by Charles E. Butterworth
reviewed by Ahmed Ali Siddiqi
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Volume 42 Issue 3 (Spring 2016)
Holbein and Plato on the Quadrivium by David Foster
Socrates’s Argument for the Superiority of the Life Dedicated to Politics
by Thomas L. Pangle
REVIEW ESSAYS:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Alex P. Jassen
reviewed by Ross J. Corbett
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
Democracy in Decline?
by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner
reviewed by Antonio Sosa
The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy
by Lorna Finlayson
reviewed by Shawn Welnak
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Volume 42 Issue 2 (Winter 2016)
Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China by Xiaofeng Liu
REVIEW ESSAY
BOOK REVIEWS
What Would Socrates Do? by Joel Alden Schlosserreviewed by Dwight Allman
Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy by Gene Fendtreviewed by J. A. Colen
The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality by David Peddlereviewed by Jerome C. Foss
After Leo Strauss by Tucker Landyreviewed by A. Pageau St-Hilaire
Modern and American Dignity by Peter Augustine Lawlerreviewed by Thomas E. Schneider
Leo Strauss: Man of Peace by Robert Howsereviewed by G. T. Sigalet
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Volume 42 Issue 1 (Fall 2015)
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. Nicholsreviewed by Joseph Alulis
Democracy in Decline: Steps in the Wrong Direction by James Allanreviewed by Thomas E. Schneider
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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
Locke, Science, and Politics by Steven Fordereviewed by Will Morrisey
Volume 41 Issue 3 (Spring 2015)
The Problematic Power of Musical Instruments in the Bible by Aryeh Tepper
BOOK REVIEWS
Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn translated and edited by Martin D. Yaffereviewed by Fred Baumann
Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom by Timothy W. Burnsreviewed by Rafael Major
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DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 40 Issue 3 (Winter 2014) & Volume 41 Issue 1 (Spring 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
Tyranny: A New Interpretation by Waller R. Newell
reviewed by L. Joseph Hebert
SPECIAL REVIEW ESSAY
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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
Reason, Tradition, and the Good: McIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory
by Jeffery L. Nicholas
reviewed by James Fetter
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Volume 40 Issue 1 (Spring 2013)
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
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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
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Volume 39 Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2012)
Reexamining Political Participation in Rousseau’s Political Thought: Does Citizens’ Political Participation Include Public Discussions and Debates?
by Jung In Kang
BOOK REVIEWS
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece by Steven Johnstone reviewed by Catherine M. A. McCauliff
Plato and the Talmud by Jacob Howland reviewed by Charles T. Rubin
Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty by Gerard B. Wegemer reviewed by L. Joseph Hebert
Reply to Leibowitz by David Levy
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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
David Hume’s Two Interpretations of Cartesian Doubt by Hilail Gildin
Reply to Levy: Socrates’s Post-Delphic Refutations by David Leibowitz
BOOK REVIEWS
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Volume 38 Issue 3 (Fall 2011)
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
Church, State, and Original Intent by Donald L. Drakeman reviewed by David F. Forte
Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 by Gregory Claeys reviewed by Will Morrisey
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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
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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
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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
Plato’s Meno translated by George Anastaplo and Laurence Bernsby Mark Pryor
Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics by Ronna Burgerby Evanthia Speliotis
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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
BOOK REVIEWS
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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
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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
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
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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
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SPECIAL ISSUE
Volume 36 Issue 1 (Fall 2008)
“Restatement,” by Leo Strauss(Critical Edition) by Emmanuel Petard
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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
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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
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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 Parensby Ann C. Wymann
Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace by Otfried Höfeeby Jeffrey Church
The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville edited by Cheryl B.Welchby Will Morrisey
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Volume 34 Issue 3 (Summer 2007)
BOOK REVIEWS
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
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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
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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
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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 Caesar by Suzanne Smith
Civil Liberty and Philosophic Liberty in John Milton’s Areopagitica by Paul M. Dowling
BOOK REVIEWS
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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
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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
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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
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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 Chris W. Surprenant
BOOK REVIEWS
Martin D. Yaffe, trans., Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise Reviewed by Steven Frankel
Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times Reviewed by Morton J. Frisch
Thomas L. Pangle, Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham Reviewed by William Mathie
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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
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Volume 31 Issue 3 (Summer 2004)
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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
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Volume 31 Issue 1 (Fall 2003)
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
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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
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Volume 30 Issue 2 (Spring 2003)
Moses Dikastes by Jules Gleicher
New Developments in Xenophon Studies by Eric Buzzetti
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
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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
A Review of Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science by Alex Harvey
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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
BOOK REVIEWS
L’athéisme, by Alexandre Kojève by Kalev Pehme
Response to Lewis and Sheppard by Harry V. Jaffa
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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
A Triple Inquiry into the Human Center by Richard Freis
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Volume 29 Issue 1 (Fall 2001)
The Rhetoric of Xenophon and the Treatment of Justice in the Memorabilia by Eric Buzzetti
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)
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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Volume 27 Issue 3 (Spring 2000)
Friendship and Politics in Sophocles’ Philoctetes by Jonathan Badger
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
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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
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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
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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
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 Chistopher Flannery
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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
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
Leo Strauss and the American Right, by Shadia Drury by Susan Orr
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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
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Heidegger, the Polity, and National Socialism by Frank Schalow
Whose Pluralism? by Bruce W. Ballard
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Volume 25 Issue 3 (Spring 1998)
The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary on Chapters 32 and 38 by Robert D. Sacks
T. A. M. Fontaine’s Account of Ibn Daud’s The Exalted Faith (Ha ‘Emunah HaRamah) by Terence Kleven
Milton and the Declaration of Independence by John Alvis
Locke’s Second Treatise and the Literature of Colonization by Mark A. Michael
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Vindicating the Founders, by Thomas G. West by Christopher Flannery
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Volume 25 Issue 2 (Winter 1998)
The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary on Chapters 30 and 31 by Robert D. Sacks
Philosophy Statesmanship, and Pragmatism in Plato’s Euthydemus by Tucker Landy
Fichte’s Deduction of Rights from Self-Consciousness by Gary B. Herbert
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On Catherine Zuckert’s Postmodern Platos and the Strauss-Gadamer Debate by Walter Lammi
Response to Walter Lammi by Catherine Zuckert
Collected Essays, by Ernest L. Fortin by Francis Canavan
Francis Bacon and the Project of Progress, by Robert K. Faulkner by Adam Schulman
Tocqueville’s Civil Religion, by Sanford Kessler by John S. Waggoner
Arguing About Slavery, by William Lee Miller by Scot J. Zentner
De Gaulle, by Daniel J. Mahoney by Will Morrisey
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Volume 25 Issue 1 (Fall 1997)
The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary on Chapters 15-29 by Robert D. Sacks
Poetic Justice for Plato’s Democracy? by Waldemar Hanasz
John Locke and Cultural Relativism by Bob Chase
Anachronism All Around: Quentin Skinner on Francisco Suarez by Thomas S. Schrock
Déjà Jew All Over Again: Dannhauser on Leo Strauss and Atheism by Hilail Gildin
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Volume 24 Issue 3 (Spring 1997)
The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary by Robert D. Sacks
‘A Soldier and Afeard’: Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland by Paul A. Cantor
Rousseau’s Adventure with Robinson Crusoe by Todd R. Flanders
Prescott’s Conquests: Anthropophagy, Auto-da-Fe and Eternal Return by Colin D. Pearce
The Speech that Changed the World by Harry V. Jaffa
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The End of Science, by John Horgan by Alex Harvey
The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato’s Philebus, by Seth Benardete by Will Morrisey
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Volume 24 Issue 2 (Winter 1997)
The Book of Job: Translation and Commentary by Robert D. Sacks
Lessons from the Garden: Rousseau’s Solitaires and the Limits of Liberalism by Mark S. Cladis
Nietzsche’s Impatience: The Spiritual Necessities of Nietzsche’s Politics by Thomas Heilke
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Something to Hide, by Peter Levine by Charles E. Butterworth
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Volume 24 Issue 1 (Fall 1996)
An Untitled Lecture on Plato’s Euthyphron by Leo Strauss
An Overlooked Motive in Alcibiades’ Symposium Speech by Gary Alan Scott and William A. Welton
The Problematic Character of Socrates’ Defense of Justice in Plato’s Republic by In Ha Jang
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Volume 23 Issue 3 (Spring 1996)
How to Study Medieval Philosophy
by Leo Strauss; edited by David Bolotin, Christopher Bruell, and Thomas L. Pangle
The Book of Judges: The Israelite Tribal Federation and Its Discontents by Daniel J. Elazar
Liberating Discourse: The Politics of Truth in Plato’s Gorgias by Chris Rocco
Harris, Strauss, and Esotericism in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
by Paul J. Bagley
Rousseau’s Philosophic Dream by Christopher Kelly
Allan Bloom and Thomas Aquinas on Eros and Immortality by Michael Sweeney
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Plato’s World: Man’s Place in the Cosmos, by Joseph Cropsey by Catherine Zuckert
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Volume 23 Issue 2 (Winter 1996)
The Origins of Political Science and the Problem of Socrates by Leo Strauss
Antiquing America: Ancient and Modern Republicanism Revisited by Thomas K. Lindsay
Moby-Dick and Melville’s Quarrel with America by John Alvis
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Volume 23 Issue 1 (Fall 1995)
The Fabric of the Longer Repeated Passages in the Odyssey by John C. Kohl, Jr.
The Sage and the Sophist: A Commentary on Plato’s Lesser Hippias by John R. Pottenger
Immanuel Kant: Punishment and the Political Precondition of Moral Existence by Gary B. Herbert
Discussion: Political Theology? An Interpretation of Genesis (3:5, 22) by Harry Neumann
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The Public and the Private in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy, by Judith A. Swanson by Ken Masugi
Black Holes & Time Warps, by Kip S. Thorne by Alexander L. Harvey
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Volume 22 Issue 3 (Spring 1995)
Two Lectures by Leo Strauss Edited by David Bolotin, Christopher Bruell, Thomas L. Pangle
Plato’s Alcibiades I by Mark Blitz
Aristotle on Tragedy: Rediscovering the Poetics by Jacob A. Howland
Discussion: Aristotle on Detective Fiction by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Volume 22 Issue 2 (Winter 1994-95)
The Cultural Predicament in Biblical Narrative by Yuval Lurie
Whip, Whipped and Doctors: Homer’s Iliad and Camus’ The Plague by Paula Reiner
Design in the Iliad Based on the Long Repeated Passages by John C. Kohl, Jr.
The Political Philosophy of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound by Judith A. Swanson
Pascal on Certainty and Utility by John C. McCarthy
BOOK REVIEWS
The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, by Eva T. H. Brann by Will Morrisey
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Volume 22 Issue 1 (Fall 1994)
Bacon’s New Atlantis: The Christian Hope and the Modern Hope by David C. Innes
Women in the Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde
The Wisdom of Exile: Edward Everett Hale’s ‘The Man without a Country’ by Colin D. Pearce
On Jacob Klein’s Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra by Joseph Gonda
Leo Strauss and Classical Political Philosophy by David Bolotin
BOOK REVIEWS
Liberalism, by Harry Neumann by Paul A. Basinski
Politics or Terror of Reason: Comments on Paul Basinski’s Review of Liberalism by Harry Neumann
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Volume 21 Issue 3 (Spring 1994)
Aristophanes’ Criticism of Egalitarianism: An Interpretation of The Assembly of Women by Mark Kremer
Virtue, Art, and the Good Life in Plato’s Protagoras by Tucker Landy
Deceit, Desire, and the Dialectic: Plato’s Republic Revisited by Nalin Ranasinghe
On Hamlet’s Mousetrap by Alfred Mollin
Wisdom and Fortune: The Education of the Prince in Shakespeare’s King Lear by Joseph Alulis
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Interpreting Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” edited by Ken Masugi by John C. Koritansky
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Volume 21 Issue 2 (Winter 1993-94)
Identifying Rhetoric in the Apology: Does Socrates Use the Appeal for Pity? by Thomas Lewis
Reflections on and in Plato’s Cave by Joel Warren Lidz
Aristotle’s Dialectical Purposes by Bernard Jacobs
Tocqueville on Socialism and History by Peter Augustine Lawler
Discussion: The End of History? by Victor Gourevich
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Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus, by Charles L. Griswold, Jr. by Will Morrisey
Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics, by Mary P. Nichols by Leslie G. Rubin
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Volume 21 Issue 1 (Fall 1993)
The Unnamed Fifth: Republic 369d by Carl Page
Socrates on the Decline and Fall of Regimes: Books 8 and 9 of the Republic by Patrick Coby
Gulliver’s Travels: The Stunting of a Philosopher by Richard Burrow
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Alf Layla wa Layla, The Arabian Nights, translated by Husain Haddawy by Charles E. Butterworth
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle, by Arne Naess by Charles T. Rubin
An Index to Interpretation, Volumes 11 through 20 by Lucia Broyden Prochnow
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Volume 20 Issue 3 (Spring 1993)
The Origins of al-Razi’s Political Philosophy by Charles E. Butterworth
Shakespeare’s Demonic Prince by Grant B. Mindle
Shakespeare’s Richard III and the Soul of the Tyrant by Morton J. Frisch
The Problem of Religion in Liberalism by Richard Sherlock & Roger Barrus
Ethnicity and the Problem of Equality by Kenneth C. Blanchard, Jr.
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Volume 20 Issue 2 (Winter 1992-93)
Phaedrus’ Cosmology in the Symposium by Charles Salman
The Images of Enslavement and Incommensurability in Plato’s Meno by Jeffrey S. Turner
Rousseau’s Socratism: The Political Bearing of “On Theatrical Imitation” by Leonard R. Sorenson
The First Crisis of Modernity: Leo Strauss on the Thought of Rousseau by Hilail Gildin
Nietzsche, Spengler, and Politics of Cultural Despair by John Farrenkopf
Tyranny: Ancient and Modern by Leah Bradshaw
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Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age, by Grace G. Roosevelt by Christopher Kelly
Political Philosophy, Volume by Luc Ferry by Terence E. Marshall
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Volume 20 Issue 1 (Fall 1992)
A Study of Part I, Chapters 1-7 of Maimonides’ The Guide of the Perplexed by Terence Kleven
Dante and Machiavelli: A Last Word by Larry Peterman
The Empire of Progress: Bacon’s Improvement upon Machiavelli by Robert K. Faulkner
BOOK REVIEWS
Collingwood’s Embattled Liberalism by James W. Muller
Individuals and Their Rights, by Tibor Machan by Nino Langiulli
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Volume 19 Issue 3 (Spring 1992)
The Education of Cyrus as Xenophon’s “Statesman” by John Ray
Belfagor: Machiavelli’s Short Story by Theodore A. Sumberg
Looking at Carl Schmitt from the Vantage Point of the 1990s by John H. Herz
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Aristotle on the Human Good, by Richard Kraut by Aristide Tessitore
Liberal Democracy and Political Science, by James W. Ceaser by Will Morrisey
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Volume 19 Issue 2 (Winter 1991-92)
Freedom and Constraints in Prometheus Bound by Kenneth Dorter
Virtue and Knowledge: On Plato’s Protagoras by Joseph Cropsey
Politics and Poetry: Aristotle’s Politics, Books VII and VIII by Michael Davis
Kojève-Fessard Documents by Hugh Gillis (translator)
The Place of Leo Strauss in a Liberal Education by Glenn N. Schram
BOOK REVIEWS
Questions Concerning the Law of Nature, by John Locke by Will Morrisey
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Volume 19 Issue 1 (Fall 1991)
Marx on Self-Consciousness, the City and the Gods by Elliot Bartky
The Relation Between Philosophy and Religion by Laurence Berns
BOOK REVIEWS
Winston S. Churchill on Empire, by Kirk Emmert by Will Morrisey
Socrates in the Apology, by C.D.C. Reeve by Patrick Coby
Natural Right and the American Imagination, by Catherine H. Zuckert by Diana Schaub
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger by Schawlow
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Volume 18 Issue 3 (Spring 1991)
Discussion Souls Without Longing by Michael Platt
The Constitution of 1787: A Commentary by George Anastaplo by Timothy Fuller and J. Jackson Barlow
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Volume 18 Issue 2 (Winter 1990-91)
Some Observations About Plato’s Phaedo by Chaninah Maschler
The Serious Play of Plato’s Euthydemus by David Roochnik
The Wisdom of Plato’s Aristophanes by Charles Salman
David Hume’s Theology of Liberation by Roger M. Barrus
Feminist Theory and Its Discontents by Daryl McGowan Tress
DiscussionReply to Lowenthal by Christopher A. Colmo
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Volume 18 Issue 1 (Fall 1990)
On Ancients and Moderns by Joseph Cropsey
Rethinking the Diodotean Argument by Laurie M. Johnson
Socrates and Alcibiades: Eros, Piety, and Politics by Jacob A. Howland
Plato’s Three Waves and the Question of Utopia by Drew A. Hyland
Beggars and Kings: Cowardice and Courage in Shakespeare’s Richard II by Pamela K. Jensen
Reason and Revelation in the Thought of Leo Strauss by Christopher A. Colmo
Discussion Comment on Colmo by David Lowenthal
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Volume 17 Issue 3 (Spring 1990)
Zarathustra’s Dancing Dialectic by Waller R. Newell
Was Tocqueville a Philosopher?: The Distinctiveness of His View of Liberty by Peter Augustine Lawler
Civil Religion in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America by John C. Koritansky
Madison’s Party Press Essays by Colleen A. Sheehan
Reading Vico Three Times
by Theodore A. Submerge
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Volume 17 Issue 2 (Winter 1989-90)
Nietzsche’s Politics by Leslie Paul Thiele
Rousseau on Reading ‘Jean-Jacques’: The Dialogues by Christopher Kelly and Roger D. Masters
Christianity and Politics in Montesquieu’s Greatness and Decline of the Romans by Richard Myers
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Volume 17 Issue 1 (Fall 1989)
Thomas Aquinas and the Reform of Christian Education by Ernest L. Fortin
The Concerns of Odysseus: An Introduction to the Odyssey by David Bolotin
Edmund Burke and the American Constitution by Morton J. Frisch
Seeing Justice Done: Aeschylus’ Oresteia by Mera J. Flaumenhaft
Evolutionary Biology and Naturalism by Roger D. Masters
The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina As a Tool for Lockean Scholarship by Celia McGuiness
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On David Johnston by William Mathie
On Ann Hartle by Chanukah Maschler
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Volume 16 Issue 3 (Spring 1989)
Macbeth: Shakespeare Mystery Play by David Lowenthal
Love and Politics in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia by Leslie G. Rubin
Eric Voegelin on the Truth of On-Between Life: A Meditation on Existential Unrest by Greg Russell
Gaston Fessard and the Nature of Authority by Hugh Gillis
Tocqueville on Sexual Morality by Sanford Kessler
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Volume 16 Issue 2 (Winter 1988-89)
On Pleasure and the Human Good: Plato’s Philebus by Joseph Cropsey
Mill’s Dilemmas by Frederick J. Crosson
Republic, Book II, and the Origins of Political Philosophy by Drew A. Hyland
Philosophy as Noblest Idolatry in Paradise Lost by John Alvis
Machiavelli’s Castruccio Castracani by Theodore A. Sumberg
Xenophon and his Socrates by Christopher Buell
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Volume 16 Issue 1 (Fall 1988)
Aristotle’s Political Presentation of Socrates in the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristide Tessitore
Rousseau’s Pure State of Nature by Victor Gourevitch
An Account of Recent Scholarship in Medieval Islamic Philosophy by Charles Butterworth
Discussion: “The Closing of the American Mind”: Five Essay-Reviews of Allan Bloom’s Book
Humanizing Certitudes and Impoverishing Doubts: A Critique of The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom by Harry V. Jaffa
Philosophy, Science, and the Opening of the American Mind by Roger D. Masters
How Bloom Did It: Rhetoric and Principle in The Closing of the American Mind by Will Morrisey
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DOUBLE ISSUE Volume 15
Issues 2 & 3 (May & Sept. 1987)
Man and Nature in Plato’s Phaedo by K.L. Yeager
The Theaetetus and the Possibility of False Opinion by David Bolotin
Tacitus’ Teaching and the Decline of Liberty at Rome (Chapters 3 to 7)< by James C. Leake
Credulity and Curiosity in A Tale of a Tub by Richard Burrow
Pluralism, the Public Good and the Problem of Self-Government in The Federalist by Kenneth L. Grasso
On the Wisdom of Nathan by Chaninah Maschler
Robert H. Horwitz, 1923-1987 by Will Morrisey
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The Fate of the Self by Stanley Corngold by Will Morrisey
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Volume 15 Issue 1 (January 1987)
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom by Harry V, Jaffa
Socratic Rhetoric and Socratic Wisdom in Plato’s Phaedrus by John C. Koritansky
Discussion The Moral Foundations of the American Republic by Palmela K. Jensen
Delimiting Philosophy by Will Morrisey
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DOUBLE ISSUE Volume 14
Issues 2 & 3 (May & Sept. 1986)
The Dramatic End of Plato’s Socrates by Joseph Cropsey
Philosophy, Education, and Courage in Plato’s Laches by Charles Griswold, Jr.
Refutative Rhetoric as True Rhetoric in the Gorgias by Thomas J. Lewis
How to Read the Consolation of Philosophy by Thomas F. Curley III
Reason and Rhetoric in Hobbes’s Leviathan by William Mathie
Rousseau versus the Savoyard Vicar: The Profession of Faith Considered by Peter Emberley
Alexander Hamilton on Natural Rights and Prudence by Mackubin Thomas Owens, Jr.
Autonomous Morality and the Idea of the Noble by Peter Simpson
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Faith and Reason in Contemporary Perspective Apropos of a Recent Book by Ernest L. Fortin
On Eco’s The Name of the Rose by Joseph J. Carpino
Affirmative Action, Liberalism, and Teleology: On Nichoilas Capaldi’s Out of Order by Nino Langiulli
The Most Recent Thinking of Jürgen Habermas by Robert R. Sullivan
Short Notices: Freedom of Expression by Francis Canavan by Will Morrisey
Philosophical Apprenticeships by Hans-Georg Gadamer by Joan Stambaugh
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Volume 14 Issue 1 (January 1986)
“Exoteric Teaching” edited by Kenneth Hart Green by Leo Strauss
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Shakespeare and His Roman Plays: Studies by Cantor, Platt, and Blits by Will Morrissey
Setting the Seal on Marxist Criticism by Stephen H. Balch
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Volume 13 Issue 3 (September 1985)
Leo Strauss’s Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy by David Lowenthal
Socratic Teaching and Justice: Plato’s Clitophon by Jan H. Blits
Individuation and Commonality in Feuerbach’s “Philosophy of Man” by Kit R. Christensen
John Stuart Mill: The Reformer Reformed by Allan D. Nelson
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Locke’s Education for Liberty by Nathan Tarcov by J.E. Parsons, Jr.
Hume’s Philosophy of Common Life by Donald W. Livingston by Nicholas Capaldi
American Conservatism and the American Founding by Harry V. Jaffa by Dennis Teti
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Volume 13 Issue 2 (May 1985)
Socratic Eironeia by Ronna Burger
Rousseau and the Management of the Passions by Peter Emberley
Virtue and Individual Rights in John Adams’ Defence by Robert Webking
The Meaning of ‘Will’ in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by Donald J. Maletz
Forward for “The Politics of Alain” by Yves R. Simon by Vukan Kuic
“The Politics of Alain” translated by John M. Dunaway by Yves R. Simon
Leo Strauss and Liberal Education by Walter Nicgorski
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Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks by Ofelia Schutte by Maureen Feder-Marcus
The Artist as a Thinker: From Shakespeare to Joyce by George Anastaplo by Larry Arnhart
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Volume 13 Issue 1 (January 1985)
Socrates’ Critique of Hedonism: A Reading of the Philebus by David Bolotin
The Net of Hephaestus: Aristophanes’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium by Arlene W. Saxonhouse
An Interpretation of Plato’s Euthyphro (Part I, Section 4, to end) by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
An Introduction to Hegel’s ‘Introduction’ to the Philosophy of Right by Donald J. Maletz
On Laughter by Joseph J. Carpino
Reply to Codevilla by Will Morrisey
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
by Nino Langiulli
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Volume 12 Issues 2 & 3 (May & Sept. 1984)
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 44-50) by Robert Sacks
Justice and Philosophy in Plato’s Republic: The Nature of a Definition by Kent Moors
An Interpretation of Plato’s Euthyphro (Introduction; Part I, Sections 1-3) by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The Virtù of Women: Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Clizia by Jack D’Amico
Rousseau’s Contract with and without his Inequality by Jim MacAdam
The Denial of Perennial Problems: The Negative Side of Quentin Skinner’s Theory by David Boucher
Rational Theologians and Irrational Philosophers: A Straussian Perspective by Ernest Fortin
Walter Benjamin / Gershom Scholem by Stanley Corngold & Michael Jennings
Response to Sherover by Mark Blitz
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Algeny by Jeremy Rifkin by Will Morrisey
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Volume 12 Issue 1 (January 1984)
Gadamer on Strauss: An Interview by Ernest L. Fortin
Hamlet: The Cosmopolitan Prince by Paul A. Cantor
Hegel on the Source of Political Authority by Michael H. Mitias
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 40-43) by Robert Sacks
Discussion: Justice in Translation by Joel B. Lidov
BOOK REVIEWS
Character Names in Dostoevsky’s Fiction by Charles E. Passage reviewed by Joan Richardson
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Volume 11 Issue 3 (September 1983)
Shakespeare’s Apology for Imitative Poetry: The Tempest and The Republic
by Barbara Tovey
Montesquieu’s Perception of His Audience for the Spirit of the Laws by Anne M. Cohler
Ethics and Politics in the Work of Jürgen Habermas by A. Anthony Smith
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 38 & 39) by Robert Sacks
Discussion: Defending Socrates and Defending Politics: a Response to Stewart Umphrey by Thomas West
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Index to Interpretation, Volumes 1-10 by Robert L. Stone
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Volume 11 Issue 2 (May 1983)
An Unspoken Theme in Plato’s Gorgias: War by Arlene W. Saxonhouse
The Good Life, Slavery, and Acquisition: Aristotle’s Introduction to Politics by Mary Nichols
Aristotle on Limits and Satisfactions of Political Life by Catherine Zuckert
Temporal Royalties and Virtue’s Airy Voice in The Tempest by Timothy Fuller
The Pursuit of Happiness in Jefferson, and its Background in Bacon and Hobbes by Jeffrey Barnouw
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 35-37) by Robert Sacks
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Volume 11 Issue 1 (January 1983)
The Crito as a Mythological Mime by Thomas Payne
The Invocation to the Georgics by Eve Adler
Melville’s “Benito Cereno”: Civilization, Barbarism and Race by William D. Richardson
Marx and Lenin by Thomas G. West
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 31-34) by Robert Sacks
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Volume 10 Issues 2 & 3 (May & September 1982)
The Education of a Sophist: Aspects of Plato’s Protagoras by Patrick Coby
Aristotle’s Art of Acquisition and the Conquest of Nature by Warren R. Brown
Notes for a Reading of Augustine, Confessions, Book X by Thomas Prufer
Machiavelli versus Dante: Language and Politics in the Dialogue on Language by Larry Peterman
Shakespeare’s Caesar’s Plan by David Lowenthal
Economics or Political Philosophy: Which Should Prevail in Public Policy? by J. Harvey Lomax
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 25-30) by Robert Sacks
Discussion: Notes Toward an “Apologia pro vita sua” by George Anastaplo
Eros and Thumos by Stewart Umphrey
Response to Umphrey by David Bolotin
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Volume 10 Issue 1 (January 1982)
The Life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, translated by J.E. Parsons & Whitney Blair by Thomas Hobbes
The Undercover Hero: Odysseus from Dark to Daylight by Mera J. Flaumenhaft
The Theology of Leviathan: Hobbes on Religion by Richard Sherlock
Pleasure, Power, and Immortality by Joseph J. Carpino
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 21-24) by Robert Sacks
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The Truth of Freedom, by John M. Anderson by Steven Gans
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DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 9 Issues 2 & 3 (September 1981)
The Rationality of Political Speech: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
by Larry Arnhart
Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
by Jan H. Blits
The Winter’s Tale: The Triumph of Comedy over Tragedy
by Mary Nichols
On Bacon’s Advertisement Touching a Holy War
by Jerry Weinberger
On Sir William Temple’s Political and Philosophical Teaching
by John Parson’s, Jr.
John Locke: Revolution, Resistance, or Opposition?
by Susan Power
The Politics of Performance: An Interpretation of Bolingbroke’s Political Theory
by Barry Cooper
Labor, the State, and Aesthetic Theory in the Writings of Schiller
by Philip J. Kain
Law as the Basis of the State: Hegel
by Michael H. Mitias
Dilthey’s Essay The Poetic Imagination: A Poetics of Force
by Stanley Corngold
Historicism and Statesmanship in the Reform Argument of Woodrow Wilson
by Kent A. Kirwan
Bertrand de Jouvenel: Order, Legitimacy, and the Model of Rousseau
by Robert C. Grady
Rawls and the Harried Mother
by William R. Marty
Ideology and Reality: The Ideologue’s Persuasion in Modern Politics
by Jürgen Gebhardt
Science, Morality, and Transnationalism
by Kenneth W. Thompson
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The Spirit of Liberalism, by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
by Patrick Coby
Political Parties in the Eighties, edited by Robert A. Goldwin
by Will Morrissey
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Volume 9 Issue 1 (August 1980)
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 11-20)
by Robert Sacks
Aeschylus’ Oresteia and the Origins of Political Life
by David K. Nichols
On the End of Thucydides’ Narrative
by John A. Wettergreen
On Halevi’s Kuzari as a Platonic Dialogue
by Aryeh L. Motzkin
Duncan Forbes’s Hume’s Philosophical Politics
by R.S. Hill
Harry A. Wolfson as Interpreter of Medieval Thought
by Aryeh L. Motzkin
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Volume 8 Issues 2 & 3 (May 1980)
In Honor and Memory of Martin Diamond
In Honor and Memory of Martin Diamond
The Writings of Martin Diamond: A Bibliography by William Schambra
The Least Imperfect Government: On Martin Diamond’s “Ethics and Politics” by Marvin Meyers
Comment: The Politics of Martin Diamond’s Science by Thomas J. Scorza
An Excerpt from “Lincoln’s Greatness” by Martin Diamond
Martin Diamond on “Lincoln’s Greatness” by William Schambra
The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 1-10) by Robert Sacks
What is Law: The Minos Reconsidered by Judith Best
Rousseau’s Civil Religion by Charles M. Sherover
Sartre and the Decadents by Edith Hartnett
Zarathustra’s Dancing Song by Laurence Lampert
Aspects of Identity and Alienation by Nathan Rotenstreich
Progressivism and Political Science: The Case of Charles E. Merriam by Glenn N. Schram
Discussion: The Defense of Liberty, Anastaplo’s The Constitutionalist by Glen E. Thurow
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen’s Christianity and Political Philosophy by Joseph J. Carpino
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Volume 8 Issue 1 (January 1979)
Preface to Hobbes politische Wissenschaft by Leo Strauss
Falstaff in the Valley of the Shadow of Death by Michael Platt
Reason and Obligation in Leviathan by John F. Wilson
An Introduction to Locke’s First Treatise by Michael P. Zuckert
Lordship and Bondage in Luther and Marx by Abraham Rotstem
Tragedy in the State of Nature: Melville’s Typee by Thomas J. Scorza
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Volume 7 Issue 3 (September 1978)
Coriolanus and Aristotle’s Magnanimous Man Reconsidered by John Alvis
The “Linguistic Imperialism” of Lorenzo Valla and the Renaissance Humanists by Lawrence J. Johnson
John Milton and Freedom of Expression by Francis Canavan
Halifax: The Complete Trimmer Revisited by J.E. Parsons, Jr.
Mill’s Concept of Happiness by Fred R. Berger
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Volume 7 Issue 2 (May 1978)
The Offense of Socrates: A Re-reading of Plato’s Apology by Eva Brann
The Prometheus Story in Plato’s Protagoras by Clyde Lee Miller
The Comic Remedy: Machiavelli’s “Mandragola” by Mera J. Flaumenhaft
Volitional Anticipation and Popular Wisdom in Descartes by Richard B. Carter
Alienation and the American Science of Politics by John W. Coffey
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Volume 7 Issue 1 (January 1978)
Francis Bacon and the Conquest of Nature by Laurence Berns
Three Concepts of Freedom: Kant-Hegel-Marx by Mieczyslaw Maneli
Notes from Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol by George Anastaplo
The Seven-Day Story by Chanukah Maschler
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Socratic Politics and Self-Knowledge: An Interpretation of Plato’s Charmides by Christopher Bruell
Nietzsche’s Lament of Ariadne by Karl Reinhardt
The Moral Legitimacy of Governments by Gershon Weiler
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Volume 6 Issue 2 (May 1977)
Nietzsche and Liberation: The Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Jensen, Pamela K.
Authority and Freedom: The Democratic Philosophy of Yves R. Simon by Cochran, Clarke E.
Niebuhr’s Conception of Politics in the United States and the World by Thompson, Kenneth W.
The Choice Between Perfectionism and Rawlsian Contractarianism by Nielsen, Kai
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Volume 6 Issue 1 (Fall 1976)
On the Theme of Plato’s Laches by Umphrey, Stewart
An Interpretation of Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae by Pollingue, Mary
Three Cosmologies by Carpino, Joseph
Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Political Thought: A Review Article by Schram, Glenn N.
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Volume 5 Issue 3 (Spring 1976)
Revolution and the Formation of Political Soceity in the Social Contract by Gildin, Hilail
Marx’s Critique of Philosophy by Stern, Peter
Winston Churchill on Empire and the Limits of Politics by Emmert, Kirk
Political Philosophy and the Right to Rebellion by Berns, Laurence
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Volume 5 Issue 2 (Winter 1975)
Leo Strauss: A Biography and Memorial, 1899-1973 by Cropsey, Joseph
A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone: III by Benardete, Seth
An Introduction to the Reading of Plato’s Laches by Blitz, Mark
Locke’s Theory of Property by Lemos, Ramon M.
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Volume 5 Issue 1 (Summer 1975)
A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone: II by Benardete, Seth
Montaigne’s Intention and his Rhetoric by Schaefer, David L.
Technology, Philosophy and Political Virtue: The Case of Billy Budd, Sailor by Scorza, Thomas J.
Interpretation by Platt, Michael
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Volume 4 Issue 3 (Spring 1975)
Xenophon’s Anabasis by Strauss, Leo
A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone: I by Benardete, Seth
Begetting and Belonging in Shakespeare’s Othello by Flaumenhaft, Mera J.
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Volume 4 Issue 2 (Winter 1974)
Homeric Honor and Thucydidean Necessity by Engeman, Thomas S.
Theory and Practice in the Founding of the Republic by Allen, W.B.
Intellectual Biography as a Form of the History of Ideas by Orr, Robert R.
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Volume 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1974)
Preliminary Observations of the Gods in Thucydides’ Work
by Strauss, Leo
Rembrandt and the Human Condition
by White, Howard
Arnold Toynbee: Nationalism as a “False God”
by Perry, Marvin
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DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 3 Issues 2 & 3 (Winter 1973)
Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
by Strauss, Leo
The Idea of Death in the Philosophy of Hegel
by Kojève, Alexandre
Remarks on the 1001 Nights
by Mahdi, Muhsin
An Introduction to Dante’s De Monarchia
by Peterman, Larry
Edmund Burke: The Psychology of Citizenship
by Adams, Larry I.
Human Emancipation and Revolution
by Rotenstreich, Nathan
Christian Ambiguity and Social Disorder
by Mead, Walter M.
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Volume 3 Issue 1 (Autumn 1972)
“An Exquisite Platform”: Utopia
by Brann, Eva
Gratitude, Nature and Piety in King Lear
by Berns, Laurence
On the Induction of The Taming of the Shrew
by Caton, Hiram
“And In Its Wake We Followed” The Political Wisdom of Mark Twain
by Zuckert, Catherine and Michael
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Volume 2 Issue 3 (Spring 1972)
On Corneille’s Horace by Trafton, Dain A.
Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America by Jaffa, Harry V.
The Dependence of Fact Upon ‘Value’ by Diamond, Martin
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Volume 2 Issue 2 (Winter 1971)
Pleasure and Reason: Marcuse’s Idea of Freedom by Rhodes, James M.
Freedom as an End of Politics by Sasseen, Robert F.
On La Rochefoucauld: Preliminary Reflections by Parsons, J.E., Jr.
Macbeth and the Tyrannical Man by White, Howard B
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Volume 2 Issue 1 (Summer 1971)
Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy by Strauss, Leo
The Myth of Virgil’s Aeneid by Klein, Jacob
On Plato’s Timaeus and Timaeus’ Science Fiction by Benardete, Seth
Note on the Intention of James Harrington’s Political Art by Wettergreen, John A.
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Volume 1 Issue 2 (Winter 1970)
Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients by White, Howard B.
On Descartes’ Discourse on Method by Cropsey, Joseph
Considering Crusoe: Part II by Schrock, Thomas S.
Self and Political Order by Zetterbaum, Marvin
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Volume 1 Issue 1 (Summer 1970)
On the Euthydemus by Strauss, Leo
Hegel, Marx, and Christianity by Kojève, Alexandre
An Interpretation of Plato’s Ion by Bloom, Allan
Macbeth’s Last Words by Benardete, Jose A.
Considering Crusoe: Part I by Schrock, Thomas S.