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Daniel J. Mahoney

Daniel J. Mahoney is Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Teaching Fellow in the Hillsdale College graduate program in Washington, D.C., and Professor Emeritus at Assumption University. He is the author, most recently, of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now (Encounter Books, 2025).

 

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton: Philosophical Christian and Scourge of Nihilism Par Excellence 

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Rather than consign Scruton to the camp of the nihilists, I think it is more just to be grateful for his efforts to liberate and defend the soul and to fight so courageously against the ubiquitous “culture of repudiation.” 

Neither a Flatterer nor a Lockean Be: Peter Augustine Lawler as a Catholic Political Philosopher

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Peter Augustine Lawler was a rich, dialectical, and irenic thinker who strove to prevent fruitful tensions from transforming into dangerously implacable oppositions. His wisdom was attuned to the needs of the late modern age. It has been nearly five years since his unexpected death at the age of sixty-five, and his wisdom remains just as needed now as it’s ever been.
Cloister

Sohrab Ahmari’s Case for Tradition

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Sohrab Ahmari’s new book enlightens in many respects, while falling short before the tribunal of moral and political prudence. Still, it succeeds admirably in making the case for “the wisdom of tradition” as the one thing most needful today.
Hammer & Sickle

Affirming Reality by Rejecting the Lie

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All “dissidents” and men of good will need to give serious thought to the ways they might resist the regnant ideological lies all around us. In this task, Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies will remain indispensable for what might be a long time to come.

Beyond the “Fanaticism of the Center”: Giving Poland and Hungary Their (Qualified) Due

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We should not romanticize the countercultural efforts of the Poles and Hungarians. But until the broad center of the intellectual and political spectrum steps away from its flirtation with nihilism and post-political illusions, we must show more understanding for those who wish to save the remnant of Western civilization that still exists.