by Scott Nelson 12 August 2019 The History of European Conservative Thoughtby Francesco GiubileiRegnery, 256 pp., $28.99 This review was published in Issue 16 (Summer/Fall 2019) of The European Conservative. You could be forgiven for thinking that conservatism today is…
By John Saudino 1 August 2019 The title is a quote from a speech by Senator Al Franken in the Senate. After demonstrating the effectiveness of Keynesian (consumer demand based) economic policy citing extensive empirical evidence, he said the following:…
by Scott Nelson This was originally written as an email to a friend on 16 February 2019. It was in response to an article he had sent me in the New Yorker, entitled “The Decline of Historical Thinking”. The state…
by Scott Nelson 7 July 2019 For a Left Populismby Chantal MouffeVerso, 112 pp., $17.95 On 25 June, I attended an event hosted by the International Institute for Peace (IIP), Vienna, where the political theorist Chantal Mouffe had been invited…
By Scott Nelson 26 June 2019 Many people must have slept better after the recent collapse of the right-wing coalition (ÖVP and FPÖ) in Austria. These same people might flatter themselves to think that populism has been vanquished for the…
By Matthew Edwards This piece originally appeared on 13 March 2019 on the Austrian Economics Center blog. The last years have seen generally strong economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, an ‘Africa Rising’ narrative has emerged from parts of the media,…
The Revolutionary Significance of John Dewey for today By: John Saudino The Public & Its Problems is a remarkable book produced by a remarkable mind. Because of its uncommon depth and the high moral integrity of its author, the reader…
Scott Nelson 19 May 2019 I recently finished reading Hal Brands and Charles Edel’s The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, in which they argue that the United States should rediscover a sense of the precariousness of the current,…
Scott B. Nelson 23 April 2019 Information about the conference and the speakers can be found here: http://budapestsummit.mcc.hu/en There is … no subject on which so much humbug is talked, written or broadcast as on immigration. This is understandable, because…
Scott Nelson 28 October 2014 The following was originally an email written to one of the earliest members of the Vienna Symposium, my dear friend Mohamed. He had asked me what I thought Machiavelli’s understanding of virtue was, and thereby…