Charles Kesler interviews Mark Blitz on contemporary liberalism vs. natural rights; virtue and responsibility; excellence and education; self-government vs. the administrative state; and lessons from Reagan.
Hadley Arkes with Charles Kesler
Charles Kesler interviews Hadley Arkes on natural law, natural right, Progressivism, and current politics.
Charles Kesler is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, host of Claremont’s The American Mind video series, and the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Hadley Arkes is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Edward Ney Professor in American Institutions at Amherst College.
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Suggested reading
Charles Kesler interviews Yuval Levin on the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine; political philosophy; the tension between Left and Right; and the Founding.
Charles Kesler interviews Francis Fukuyama on the final form of human government; the modern state; democracy and Islam; and political decay in America.
Charles Kesler interviews Charles Krauthammer on his education; Freud, Churchill, and Einstein; successes and failures in Iraq; the fate of modern liberalism; and the Democrat's failure to recognize evil.
Charles Kesler interviews Harry V. Jaffa on Abraham Lincoln; why Jaffa became a conservative; and Jaffa's conservative battles.
