John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Despite coming late in its history, Mill may have been the single most potent shaper of classical Liberal political …
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The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Having considered the surprisingly ascetic philosophy of Epicurus, and the broader implications of the existence of pain, what …
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The Great Conversation: Education—Part I
The Great Conversation: Education—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We shall doubtless get to the last in due time, but what, in the first place, is education for? On …
The Great Conversation: Government
The Great Conversation: Government By Gabriel Blanchard It began to be said several years ago that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” were becoming a more appealing …
Tocqueville: The Eighth Sage
Tocqueville: The Eighth Sage By Gabriel Blanchard The legacy of the American and French Revolutions is a complicated one, and nowhere exhibits its complexity more than in the …
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part VI
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part VI By Gabriel Blanchard We have discussed autonomy and the authority spheres of the temple, the forum, and the academy; one more remains. This …
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part IV
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part IV By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed power in the spheres of religion and the individual conscience, we now come to the public sphere of …
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part III
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard “We hold these truths to be self-evident”; but are they? Go here for Part I, or here for Part II. …
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part I
The Great Conversation: Authority—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard The question of authority impinges on practically every other field of inquiry that exists or can exist. Though curiously omitted …
Montesquieu: The Grandfather of the Constitution
Montesquieu: The Grandfather of the Constitution By Gabriel Blanchard We have a general notion of the debt our government structure owes to the British, the Romans, even possibly …
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