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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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.
Trump and the Vice of False Moderation
Compromise requires a common understanding which patriotic Americans cannot have with the radicals of the destructive Left.
The Middle Way of American Equality
Our tradition of justice shuns the dangerous extremes of utopian equity, unjust hierarchy, and materialistic liberalism.
Woke Language Is a Weapon of War
The way the woke Left seeks to control language is reminiscent of the dictatorships of the 20th century.
Dostoevsky: Prophet of Woke Insanity
'Demons' is an unerringly accurate diagnosis of the sickness of soul that drives the totalitarian temptation.
Refusing the “Great Refusal”
Woke despotism has not yet won the day. There is still time for resistance, reversal, and reclamation. To paraphrase…
Populism Rightly Understood
Populism needs to be reconnected to, and informed by, old wisdom if it is to give rise to true civic…
American Maoism
There is much to be learned by confronting the deep pathologies at the heart of the ideological deformation of reality.