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Civil Religion and Foreign Policy: 7 Questions for Walter McDougall

April 06, 2018 Leave a Comment

Walter A. McDougall At length I gained insight, not because I somehow “figured it out,” but because the historical truth imposed itself on me.

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Yee-haw! Guns and Civil Religion in Texas

August 18, 2016 Leave a Comment

William B. Parsons Which brings us to guns. There are many, many reasons why campus carry is a bad idea.

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Modern Greece and the Politics of the Sacred

February 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
"Tsipras, Syriza!"

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) referred famously to “the consecrated state.” G.W.F Hegel (1770-1831) spoke of the modern democratic state almost as if it were a “temple” dedicated to human freedom. Both men came to their startlingly spiritual views of modern politics and the modern state by reflecting critically on the French Revolution and its aftermath.

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