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The House of a Hundred Gates: Antonio Gramsci on the Roman Catholic Church in Modern Politics
From the beginning of the 19th century the most influential theorizations of Christianity have looked to Protestantism as the exemplary denomination. This would be especially true of the denunciation of religion as false consciousness. The Young Hegelians targeted a Christianity of a distinctly Lutheran aspect but regarded Catholicism, by contrast, as a historically superseded formation…
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The Tribulations of the Fourth Age
“In the absence of any compelling intellectual traditions on the American Right, Catholicism has offered a refuge for those weary of progressive ideologies mandated by institutions that are no longer hiring. The senior branch of Christendom has long enjoyed a default advantage in this competition for souls, for the wayward, post-secular scholar, writer or aesthete…
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Dispatch from the Future Drone Wars
After three years of war in Ukraine, military futurologists have a massive expanding archive of video stream of medium-intensity carnage to analyze. For much of the conflict, its primary characteristics have been in dispute: is it a clash of high-tech weapons systems or a throwback to WWI era attrition war? Although Russian superiority in artillery…
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Why We Remain Jews: The Significance of Leo Strauss for a Contemporary Anti-Zionism
“The premise of what follows is that the contextualization and analysis of the inter-war writings of Strauss opens up new perspectives on Zionism and the so-called Jewish Question. In its intellectual boldness and coherence, Strauss’s views hold up a mirror to what calls itself Zionism today and hopefully the prospect that this intellectual portrait might…
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The Theory of Victory or Death
“Why has American support for Israel gone up in a period in which the Zionist state has lost all value from a US strategic point of view? The US-Israel relationship and the Zionist enterprise itself are significant test cases for theories that regard states as rational actors. A brief historical overview is in order.” Editors…
