If King Solomon is considered to be the archetype of a just statesman, it behooves us to also consider the formative experiences that shaped his sense of leadership
Tim MiloschMay 15, 2025
Pagan virtues and philosophy, for all the glory of Greece and Rome, could never imagine the radical equality and servant-leadership intrinsic to American democracy
Tim MiloschSeptember 11, 2024
Col. Jessup and Machiavelli agree: sometimes, you need to stop moralizing and do what needs to be done for the sake of national self-preservation
Phillip DolitskyJuly 23, 2024
Review of Intercollegiate Studies Institute President John Burtka IV’s new book “Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill”
Justin D. LyonsApril 2, 2024
Tragically, self-imposed restraints on the use of violence tend towards prolonging evil, not minimizing it
Phillip DolitskyMarch 15, 2024
MLK’s arc towards justice doesn’t entail passivity and requires sacrificial labor with patience. It also offers confidence that such labors are not in vain. There is a cosmic superstructure, and its Architect presides and will prevail.
Mark TooleyJuly 9, 2021
It is childish to demand the real world conform to one’s fancy; it is childlike to learn about the real world by playing in an imaginary one. Both the idealist and the cynical realist are childish. The Christian realist, by contrast, should be childlike.
Richard JordanApril 14, 2021
Simply being good in order to do good is not enough. That is true. But simply being skilled—to have what Machiavelli calls virtú (as opposed to virtue)—in order to do good is also not enough.
Bryan T. McGrawMay 14, 2020
Realism and the just war ethic both pursue war in certain contexts, so they can appear to be close cousins. But the just war ethic shares less with realism than realism shares with pacifism.
Joseph E. CapizziMarch 23, 2020