Hal Foster and Ben Lerner discuss criticism, poetry, painting and what it means to despise the thing you love most.

In the post-war years, the international order became dominated by the United States and advanced industrial Western democratic states. The end of the Cold War allowed liberal governance to spread ...

Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy. As Carl Schmitt’s intellectual reputation continues to rise in scholarly circles, so does the critical heat surrounding his anti-Semitism. The more ...

Carl Schmitt, Antonio Gramsci and Samuel Francis are an ill-assorted trio. Schmitt was the Nazi Party’s favorite legal scholar. Gramsci was a leading Marxist intellectual imprisoned by Mussolini.

Few of us were surprised by yesterday’s news that special counsel Jack Smith had filed an indictment against Donald Trump in a federal court in Washington, D.C. Nor were we surprised by Trump’s ...

It is customary for conservative intellectuals to scoff at the notion that a leading political theorist in pre-war Germany had any real influence on the policies of the last American administration.