Pierre Manent

Pierre Manent was director of studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, until his retirement in 2014. He is the author of numerous books, including The City of Man, Democracy without Nations?, Metamorphoses of the City, and most recently, Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason. (Photo © La Nef.)

June 12, 2021
Politics & Law

June 12, 2021
Interviews, Politics

Europe and America after COVID: An Interview with Pierre Manent

By Nathaniel Peters and Pierre Manent

I would venture to say that Europeans and Americans are confronting a spiritual conundrum. How does an immense civilization examine its conscience? How do nations and societies confess and atone for their sins?

March 28, 2021
Politics & Law

March 28, 2021
Immigration, Politics

Christianity, Immigration, and the Religion of Humanity

By Pierre Manent

The humanitarian proposal is hard to refuse, because it postulates that we can achieve justice if everyone simply becomes aware of their essential human likeness. The Christian proposal is hard to accept, because it affirms that all human beings are prisoners of an injustice from which they cannot escape by their own efforts.

July 26, 2020
Politics & Law, The Human Person

July 26, 2020
Religion, Religion and the Public Square

The Church Has the Form of a City

By Pierre Manent

The book of Acts shows that the Catholic Church has the form of a city in which a specific work is conducted. That work of sanctification has its source in the sacrifice of the Mass, which the state must allow the Church to continue celebrating as much as possible. This essay originally appeared in French and is translated here for the first time.

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