Glenn Ellmers
Glenn Ellmers is the Claremont Institute’s Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding, and the author, most recently, of The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (Encounter Books).
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Trump Must Learn from Machiavelli
Trump must take great risks to save the country. In dangerous times, it is impossible to avoid dangerous measures.
Hold On
The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death reveals a culture where barbarism is virtue and sanity itself is under siege.
Science at the End of History
Our problem is not a managerialism that fears the human soul, but a rational state devoted to liberating the autonomous self.
Setting Fire to the Deep State
A new "scholarly" treatment of the administrative state is a thinly veiled defense of the regime against Trump and the MAGA mandate.
The War on Wokeness Is Not Over
Patriotic Americans cannot declare victory over the woke totalitarianism that still threatens their way of life.
The Fight Is Just Beginning
Trump's re-election is a heartening sign, but the battles to come will be more dangerous and consequential than any we have yet faced.
Equality Is America’s Inheritance
The great achievement of the American Revolution was to insist that the people are sovereign.
The Meaning of Political Philosophy
The Right needs a command of fundamental questions if it is to counter a Left that rejects human nature.