Mackinder, Geography, and History
Halford Mackinder (1861–1947) understood the forces that shape world politics better than any thinker of the twentieth century. When he delivered his famous address to the Royal Geographical Society in London in January 1904—an address that accurately foresaw the main...
‘Only Power Restrains Power’
James Burnham’s The Machiavellians at Seventy. Seventyyears ago, James Burnham, in the middle of his intellectual odyssey from Marxism to conservatism, wrote an insightful and timeless study of politics and the nature of political power in a book entitled The...Churchill After the War
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid. Little Brown and Company, 2012. Hardcover, 1182 pages, $40. At the end of The Gathering Storm, the first volume of his history of the Second World War,...A Global Life in Ideas
Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick by Peter Collier. New York: Encounter Books, 2012. 241 pp. $26.Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the intellectual giant of the first four years of the Reagan administration. After Reagan swept to a forty-nine-state...
Editor, @lsheahan, on the @lawliberty podcast with @JohnGGrove1 discussing new edition of Robert Nisbet's classic, The Social Philosophers. @AmPhilSociety Press.
Me, on a new edition of ROBERT NISBET's THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS, out with @AmPhilSociety Press, on the @lawliberty Podcast with @JohnGGrove1.
I enjoyed the opportunity to interview @lsheahan for the @LawLiberty Podcast on the new edition of Robert Nisbet's The Social Philosophers. Give it a listen and subscribe at Apple/Spotify etc...