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Protocols of Machismo, Part 2: On the Hidden Connection Between Henry...

Yesterday, I posted Part 1 of this excerpt from Chapter 9 of The Reactionary Mind. Today, I post Part 2. • • • • •   What is it about being a great power that renders the imagining of its own demise so...

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Jean Bethke Elshtain Was No Realist

The political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain has died. Many people were fans of her work; I was not. In her early scholarship, Elshtain established herself as a distinctive voice: feminist, Laschian,...

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The History of Fear, Part 5

I’m back today with part 5 of my intellectual history of fear. After my posts on Hobbes (rational fear), Montesquieu (despotic terror), Tocqueville (democratic anxiety), and Arendt (total terror),...

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