Mark Blitz is a political philosopher and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, where he holds the Fletcher Jones Chair. He contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard over two decades, exploring themes in political philosophy, classical thought, and the intellectual foundations of liberalism and democracy. His writing frequently engaged with thinkers such as Plato, Hamilton, and Tocqueville.
"To put it in a nutshell," João Carlos Espada tells us, his book "aims at providing an intellectual case for liberal democracy." This aim puts The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty on a crowded shelf of mostly desiccated husks. What gives his work vitality is his wish to clarify why European…
"To put it in a nutshell,” João Carlos Espada tells us, his book "aims at providing an intellectual case for liberal democracy." This aim puts The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty on a crowded shelf of mostly desiccated husks. What gives his work vitality is his wish to clarify why European…
"One spring Martin Buber came to Chicago,” Seth Benardete tells us in his Encounters and Reflections, “and [Leo] Strauss was asked to introduce him. . . . ‘I have the great pleasure to introduce Martin Buber,’ Strauss began, ‘who is probably the greatest Jewish thinker since Mmm . . .’ And…
Answers for Aristotle intends to help us improve our lives. Its method is to see what science can now teach us about philosophical questions, but also what it cannot. It joins the current gaggle of semi-popular works meant to inform the eager, but ignorant, about what neuroscience and psychology…
The Servile Mind
Idea and Ontology
On Thinking Institutionally
Sovereignty
Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents
Aristotle and Hamilton
Plato's Republic
Encounters and Reflections
FINDING A NEW BOOK by the political philosopher Leo Strauss more than a generation after his death in 1973 is as startling and unexpected as discovering a lost manuscript by Bach in some dark and remote German basement. Strauss has become famous among American conservatives as an opponent of…
Karl Lowith