When is civil disobedience necessary?
Douglas Farrow examines the relation between “the kings of the earth” and the law of Christ, particularly when governmental law is exercised without reference to natural or divine law. (49 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 negation of transcendence
Michael Hanby argues that our current civilizational crisis can be understood as a “new totalitarianism" that negates or disallows every form of transcendence. (32 minutes)
Totalitarianism in a new mode
John Milbank on how liberalism has a marked tendency to become illiberal
Skepticism and totalitarian drift
John Paul II on how a loss of confidence in the reality of truth accentuates the will to power
Roger Kimball: “Leszek Kolakowski and the Anatomy of Totalitarianism”
Roger Kimball summarizes the diagnosis of modernity’s ailments offered by philosopher Leszek Kolakowski. (35 minutes)