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Beyond Scarcity
Through the work of neoclassical economist Thomas Sowell, Elliot Goodell Ugalde dissects the orthodox view that takes for granted that scarcity is at the center of economic life. In a world of various kinds of surpluses, Goodell argues, the idea that scarcity is the only organizing principle of our economic is inadequa...
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
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Sep 2026
How to Rebel
This article is an adaptation of the Acton Institute’s 2025 Calihan Lecture, presented by Novak Award winner Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug. Drawing on C. S. Lewis and Albert Camus, Birkhaug argues that contemporary American politic culture suffers from a shortage of true rebels—those who pursue truth instead of embracing i...
Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug
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Sep 2026
Totality must be defended
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life. By contrast, this ar...
Chris Hesketh, A. Morton
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Steelmanning in the Shadow of Iron Swords
Abstract This article argues that the approach to political theory articulated by Shmuel Nili’s Philosophizing the Indefensible needs to be modified to address non-ideal political circumstances in illiberal political societies in deep conflict. Building on Nili’s analysis of Israeli politics as a paradigmatic example,...
L. Erez
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2015
Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
Gary A. Mullen
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Aug 2026
Against Theological Obsequiousness
In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the church’s twentieth-century thought on tradition, leading to unnecessary dichotomies, such as whether tradition changes or is unchanging.
M. F. Fischer
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