My former university tutor Larry Siedentop, who has died aged 88, was a political philosopher specialising in the study of western liberalism and democracy. The most widely read of his books was ...

American ideals of social equality are taken from Greco-Roman political philosophy. Christian other-worldliness caused the fall of the Roman Empire. The form of government favored by the medieval ...

‘What is the West about?” asks Larry Siedentop, an emeritus fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Years of reflecting on the character of Western societies lead him to an answer that resembles the one ...

Andrew Moravcsik, reviewing Democracy in Europe by Larry Siedentop ("Despotism in Brussels?," May/June 2001), states that the European Union "is the most ambitious and most successful example of ...

Hope College will present honorary degrees to Dr. Larry Siedentop and Dr. Daryl Siedentop, who are brothers as well as Hope alumni, for distinguished service as scholars and educators, on Thursday, ...

Perhaps the most important event in Western history occurred on the road to Damascus, when Saul of Tarsus fell to the ground and converted from a persecutor of Christians to a believer himself. His ...

All over the Atlantic world, political liberalism has fallen on evil days. In the U.S., the creed of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F Kennedy has become a sin that dare not speak its ...

The Dignity Act Is the Same Bad Deal as Ever With the War in Iran, the Press Is Not the Story The Economy’s Fine, but We Miss Being Spoiled Canada’s Dangerous Obsession with Donald Trump The ...

On January 7, 2015, the French president François Hollande, speaking in the wake of the Islamist killings in his nation that day, said it was “the Republic as a whole that has been attacked.” Hollande ...

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