Political Philosophy

A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times

The Conservative Party’s almost total loss of its historical tradition is the principal reason for its current plight

We should think with our heads as well as our hearts

Ayn Rand’s vile philosophy was one of the crudest ever to be taken seriously, but attracts the devotion of fundamentalists for whom she could do no wrong

Another way to look at morality and law

Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius

Can liberal philosophers be used to justify censorship?

Why Johnson was never a postliberal

A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias