Introduction

William Kristol

Part I: Machiavellianism and Its Alternatives

Virtue, Modern and Ancient

Mark Blitz

How a Liberal Picks a Fight: Marsilius of Padua and the Singular Cause of Strife

John P. Gibbons

Machiavelli and the Foundations of Modernity: A Reading of Chapter 3 of The Prince

Nathan Tarcov

Necessity, Morality, Christianity

Ralph C. Hancock

Metaphysics and Religion: Francis Bacon's Critique of the Ancients

Jerry Weinberger

``Christian Kings'' and ``English Mercuries'': Henry V and the Classical Tradition of Manliness

Paul A. Cantor

Part II: The Liberal Regime

``Hobbes,'' ``Socinus,'' ``Spinoza'': Esotericism and the Atheist State in Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Rousseau on the Problem of Invisible Government: The Discours sur l'economie politique

Clifford Orwin

Rousseau, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sympathetic Identification

Arthur Melzer

Kantian Idealism

Susan Meld Shell

Political Philosophy and the Religious Issue: From the Ancient Regime to Modern Capitalism

Peter Minowitz

Part III: America, Constitutionalism, and Statesmanship

Things Which Independent States May of Right Do

Jeremy Rabkin

The Common Law Spirit of the American Revolution

James R. Stoner Jr.

The Federalist's Unmixed Republican Government

David F. Epstein

Responsibility in The Federalist

Charles R. Kesler

Abraham Lincoln and the Spirit of American Statesmanship

Glen E. Thurow

Constitutional Bureaucracy

R. Shep Melnick

Separation of Powers and Contemporary Politics: The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Jessica Korn

The Care of Souls in a Constitutional Democracy: Some Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Robert P. Kraynak

Churchill's Understanding of Politics

James W. Muller

Publications

Harvey C. Mansfield

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