Cicero’s Fragile Trinity

by Scott B. Nelson 26.10.2022 This article originally appeared on 18 August 2022 in Law & Liberty. The fame of Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero was never definitively extinguished over the centuries. But reaching its apogee in the 18th century,…

A Plea for Conservative Liberalism

by Scott B. Nelson 6 February 2022 This article originally appeared on 31 January 2022 at the Austrian Economics Center. Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers, 2 vol.by Hannes H. GissurarsonNew Direction, PDFs available online: Volume I (350 pp.), Volume II (534 pp.) A polity drifts without…

The Nuclear Alternative

by Scott B. Nelson 29 December 2021 This article originally appeared on 28 December 2021 at the Austrian Economics Center. Just over a century ago the German sociologist Max Weber described two ethics: the ethic of conviction and the ethic…

Dante and Liberty

by Scott B. Nelson 31 July 2021 This article originally appeared on 21 May 2021 in Law & Liberty. This year marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, one of the great authors of Western civilization. A…