On Virtue Politics

The Difference Between Belief and Observance

First Things , April 9, 2024 When I was at All Souls College at Oxford some years ago I had a conversation during a Saturday evening...

The Good Society , vol. 31, no. 1 (2022) The teaching of virtue in the Renaissance was certainly more generic and more bookish. The texts...

Principia: A Journal of Classical Education 2.1 (Spring 2023) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1413–1494) was the most important political...

Law and Liberty , May 11, 2022 In contemporary America, the most glamorous of the virtues is undoubtedly justice. On battlefields,...

Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies 18 (2022) … One conviction Patrizi took from his Greek authorities, fundamental to what I have...

First Things , October 11, 2021 Last weekend I attended the “Higher Education Summit,” an annual gathering sponsored by the Classical...

First Things , November 1, 2020 The words “piety” and “pious” have an archaic ring; moderns find them hard to use without irony or a...

First Things , December 1, 2018 At present there is a great deal of handwringing about civility. On campus, students in screaming packs...