Essays by

Jacob Hamburger

Property Damage

This interview first appeared on Tocqueville21, a blog about twentieth-century democracy.  ● With the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013, Thomas Piketty […]

Democracy’s Midlife Crisis

David Runciman is head of the department of politics and international studies at Cambridge University and host of the popular podcast Talking Politics. Danielle Charette […]

What Was New Atheism?

Much of the recent commentary on the New Atheists and their friends has focused on their flirtation with the worst ideas of the far right, but it might be more instructive to look at what they call for openly: the redemption of rationalist or “classical” liberalism. In this regard, they have at least as much in common with the mainstream centrism reeling from Hillary Clinton’s defeat as they do with Donald Trump’s “deplorables.”

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom was an elitist. He saw himself as a champion of excellence in an age of vulgarity.