Paul Rahe, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Paul Rahe

Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic, and The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy.

How the Medieval Church Made Modern Liberty

By Paul Rahe|2019-05-23T10:29:19-05:00October 2nd, 2017|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Civil Society, Constitution, Culture, Great Books, History, Liberty|

It is a small step from the charters and constitutions of the Medieval Church to our own Declaration of Independence… The civilization of the West is rendered an intelligible unit and distinguished from the alternatives by three characteristics present nowhere else: monotheism in religion, philosophy, and science as a means for understanding the natural world, [...]

How to Think About the Tea Party

By Paul Rahe|2017-06-26T16:11:08-05:00February 18th, 2011|Categories: American Founding, American Republic|

In February 19, 2009, when the finance commentator Rick Santelli indulged in a rant against the newly unveiled “stimulus” bill on the CNBC cable network and called for a demonstration in Chicago modeled on the Boston Tea Party, he fired a shot heard round the country. Santelli’s diatribe was focused on the fact that Americans [...]