In this episode:
- Glenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Narrow Passage, about the permanent political problems that stem from reason in politics
- how the modern project rejects the humility of the classical tradition, and has ushered in the philosophic tyranny of the modern administrative state and woke ideology
- why the Left is built upon a contradiction between postmodernism and a belief in rational post-political expertise
Texts Mentioned:
- The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers
- “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jonathan Haidt
- “German Nihilism” by Leo Strauss
- The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America by Glenn Ellmers
- claremont.org
- “PODCAST: Glenn Ellmers on Harry Jaffa and the Soul of Politics” by The Anchoring Truths Podcast
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