Edmund Burke and the Politics of Empire

By |2020-01-12T13:30:50-06:00September 29th, 2012|Categories: Edmund Burke, Political Science Reviewer, Politics, William F. Byrne|

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters of Edmund Burke, ed. David Bromwich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). Empire and Community: Edmund Burke’s Writings and Speeches on International Relations, ed. David P. Fidler and Jennifer M. Welsh (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999). Edmund Burke was one of those rare figures who combined profound [...]

The Constitutionalism of The Federalist Papers

By |2020-10-27T11:02:02-05:00September 9th, 2012|Categories: American Founding, Constitution, Federalist Papers, Political Science Reviewer|

Consider: Where in the Constitution does one find the separation of powers mentioned? Where does the expression “checks and balances” occur? They are not in the Constitution. We use them because they are terms upon the basis of which the Constitution was accepted. And it is the agreement reached on those things that constitutes the [...]

Benjamin Franklin & George Washington: Symbols or Lawmakers?

By |2021-03-07T17:18:31-06:00August 25th, 2012|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Benjamin Franklin, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, George Washington, Political Science Reviewer|

Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, uniquely, have been lionized as merely “lending their names” to the founding. But at least one of these two greatest Americans of the eighteenth century was indeed a lawmaker and not merely a symbol in the Constitutional Convention. The title of this essay gives away its complete content, without suggesting [...]

The United States as World Savior: Costs and Consequences

By |2021-03-07T08:28:49-06:00August 3rd, 2012|Categories: American Founding, Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Political Science Reviewer, Progressivism, Woodrow Wilson|Tags: |

The Framers’ temperament was indebted far more to the inherited culture of the “old constitutional morality” than to Enlightenment fads for remaking the world. While many did indeed believe that their success or failure would affect other nations and future generations, their enthusiasm was constrained by the enduring classical and Christian tradition. On December 4, [...]

T.S Eliot’s Christianity and Culture: the Problem of Establishment

By |2016-08-03T10:37:29-05:00June 11th, 2012|Categories: Books, Bruce Frohnen, Christendom, Political Science Reviewer, T.S. Eliot|

T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot indisputably was, and remains, in the first rank of poets of any era and any culture.[1] Eliot is almost as well known among literate persons as a critic and literary theorist. His journal, The Criterion, despite its short lifespan, remains the standard of high modernism. Continuing interest in [...]

M.E. Bradford’s Constitutional Theory: A Southern Conservative’s Affirmation of The Rule of Law

By |2016-07-04T01:03:01-05:00May 4th, 2012|Categories: American Founding, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Featured, M. E. Bradford, Political Science Reviewer, Republicanism, Southern Agrarians|

A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution. (La Salle, IL: Sherwood Sugden & Company Publishers, 1979). Cited in the text as Guide. Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative. (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1985). Cited in the text as Remembering. A Worthy Company: The Dramatic Story of [...]

Humane Letters and the Clutch of Ideology

By |2018-10-16T20:25:08-05:00March 23rd, 2012|Categories: Books, Film, Ideology, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Science Reviewer, RAK, Russell Kirk|

Literature in Revolution. Edited by George Abbott White and Charles Newman. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston-Triquarterly Book, 1972).  Time was when the study of humane letters stood central in formal education. Public men were brought up in a literary discipline, and “rhetoric” meant more than an orator’s style. The domination of the political order [...]

Redeeming America’s Political Culture: The Kirkean Tradition in the Study of American Public Life

By |2019-04-24T10:00:36-05:00October 27th, 2011|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Books, Bruce Frohnen, Conservatism, Political Science Reviewer, Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind|

By and large, the American Revolution was not an innovating upheaval, but a conservative restoration of colonial prerogatives. Accustomed from their beginnings to self-government, the colonials felt that by inheritance they possessed the rights of Englishmen and by prescription certain rights peculiar to themselves. When a designing king and a distant parliament presumed to extend [...]

Redeeming America’s Political Culture

By |2017-06-09T14:51:26-05:00July 14th, 2010|Categories: Political Science Reviewer, Politics, W. Winston Elliott III|

Bruce Frohnen In his essay in the 2006 issue of The Political Science Reviewer our good friend Bruce Frohnen addresses fundamental questions regarding the conservative roots of America’s political culture. I publish this partially in response to Brad Birzer’s “Under Montana Skies” essay today. In this essay Brad defends alliances between conservatives and [...]

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