Daniel J. Mahoney
Daniel J. Mahoney is Professor Emeritus at Assumption University, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and Senior Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus. His most recent book is The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now (Encounter Books, 2025).
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A Bogeyman Called ‘Far-Right’
In Chile, democratic conservatives have successfully resisted the designs of the revolutionary Left. Americans should take notes.
Restoring the Mind of the Republic
Civic thought programs are emerging as a bold answer to the destructive Left’s grip on American higher education.
Zohran Mamdani and the Family Business
The academic fixation on 'settler colonialism' leads directly and necessarily to the political commitment to destroying America.
A Summer Reading List for the Anti-Woke
A number of recent political books, and a few time-tested classics, can guide us through the present American crisis.
“Radical Evil” and the Totalitarian Temptation
The essential books of the anti-totalitarian tradition risk appropriation in service of a new, woke expression of the totalitarian impulse.
Europe’s Anti-Democratic Turn, and Ours
The elites who deny popular rule in Europe to defend "democracy" have their reflections, and their supporters, in America too.
JD Vance and the European Crisis
The vice president's Munich speech disturbed Europe's elite because it drew battle lines in an enduring contest for the soul of the West.
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now
Wokeness stems from the replacement of "good" and "evil" with "Progress" and "Reaction," just like the worst regimes of the 20th century.