The troubled marriage of art and democracy
Historian David Smith explains the idealistic (and naïve) political motivations behind the establishing of the National Endowment for the Arts, founded in 1965. (52 minutes)
Power and paranoia
From our cassette tape archives, Daniel Chirot talks about political tyranny, and Daniel Pipes explains how conspiracy theories flourish. (31 minutes)
The purpose of government and God’s eternal purpose
Philip Turner on understanding the state in light of the eschatological reality of the Church
The problem of a degenerate electorate
Aquinas, Augustine, and Aristotle on good government, as summarized by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange