Regarding Warnings of Fascism in American Politics
Fascism in American Politics? Giovanni Gentile taught that Fascism was a development from Italian liberalism, and represents a new spiritual and revolutionary ideal of order and progress. It combined elements […]
Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality
WHERE AUTHORITY LIES “. . .And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness (zohar) of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for […]
Étienne de La Boétie on Liberty and Tyranny
Étienne de La Boétie on facing corrupt rulers. “Be resolute to serve no more, and you are at once free. I do not ask you to push him, to topple […]
Post-Risorgimento Idealism: Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonari Theosophists
NOTES ON GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in a way most people have […]
James J. Sack on Right-Wing Hatred of Dissenters in the 18th century
The European Right in the Era of Republicanism The attitudes and thinking-patterns of intellectuals on the political Right in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century remain as they are in today’s American […]
In Post-Trump Right, Republicans must return to Republicanism as Moral and Philosophical Guide
Excerpt from Republicanism for Republicans, National Affairs, Winter 2019. “To build a new, post-Trump right, we need a new political language in which to express ourselves. Where will we find […]
Minerva leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington”
MINERVA, Goddess of Wisdom leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.” The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington is a copperplate-printed toile fabric produced in […]
The Loose Tradition of Republican Writers
In regards to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is a great reference for understanding ‘REPUBLICANISM,’ in two different, but closely related senses. The author of the article, Frank Lovett […]
American Romanità: What we lost when we Abandoned Classical Education | M.N.S. Sellers, Wes Callihan and Rebekah Hagstrom
“The study of ancient Greek and Latin long ago vanished from most American classrooms, and with it has gone a special understanding of the values and virtues prized by Western […]
Helena Blavatsky on Government Systems: “They have no sway over the inner man…”
“…Whether the physical man be under the rule of an empire or a republic, concerns only the man of matter. His body may be enslaved; as to his Soul, he […]
Benjamin Rush and Early Federalist Republicanism: Fear of Democracy, Moral Degradation, and Corruption
Fear of Mob Democracy and the Roman republic’s fate of corruption The stories of Marius, Tacitus, Livy and Sallust stress importance of morals, reason and the rule of law in […]
The American Minervan 