PUBLIC FAVOR
Liberty is freedom from arbitrary power over one’s person, property, standing and judgment. The republic is the partnership of a people associated by agreement on justice and by common utility, not by descent, station, or faction. Our aim is to recover that standard against later habits that turn past injury into separation, partial loyalty into a rule for everyone, and the common good into internal ranking.
FROM THE CONFEDERATION OF REPUBLICS
FOUNDATIONS BEFORE THE CANON & ATLASES
DISCOURSES ON BLACK CIVIC FOUNDATIONS
Journey through the legacy of early Black Republicanism, from Phillis Wheatley’s neoclassical verse and Benjamin Banneker’s scientific rebuttals to David Walker’s fiery classical oratory and Frederick Douglass’s radical reimagining of liberty as freedom from arbitrary domination — and discover its vital key to a New Black Renaissance
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Black Capital, the Republican Meaning of Independence, and Elite Duty in Black Political Thought, 1865-1925
INTRODUCTION CIVIC REPUBLICANISM IS OLDER THAN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING and older than the Black encounter with it, and its…
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Civic Independence and the Commercial Republic: Wage Labor, Luxury, and the Republican Quarrel with Markets
Black Atlantic Republicanism, Canon and Atlases, Civic Economy & the Commonwealth, Commerce, Property and Independence, Non-Domination and LibertyTHE REPUBLICAN TRADITION’S QUARREL WITH MARKETS WAS never a quarrel with exchange as such. It is a quarrel with…
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Civic Independence and the Commercial Republic: “Capitalism,” Markets and the Unfinished Republican Political Economy
Black Atlantic Republicanism, Canon and Atlases, Civic Economy & the Commonwealth, Commerce, Property and Independence, Res Publica, Labor and the Common GoodIN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES, AMONG AMERICANS of African descent, the older republican relation to labor, property, and…
FEATURED ESSAYS
EDITOR’S LETTERS & BOOK REVIEWS
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Letter to the Common Life: the Unheard Voices of my People
IT IS NOT GRANTED TO ANY ONE MOUTH TO DELIVER insight into the shared life already sealed, nor does…
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Seeds of Liberty: My Path and the Difficulty of Carrying the Republican Inheritance Forward
I am Dominique Montoya-Johnson, an ordinary citizen in an age of centralizing corruption, controlled platforms, greed and factional absolutism.…
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What I Learned at the Museum of Hydra: Hydriot Freemasons, the Filiki Eteria, and the 1821 Revolution
Associational Republicanism, Atlantic Republicanism, Freemasonry and Fraternal Orders, Letters and Reviews, Renaissance Republicanism, Revolutionary and Clandestine AssociationsThis is about my reflections during and after visiting the Museum of Hydra (Idra) island in Greece. It explains…
AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC
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Claire Snyder-Hall on “Real Housewives” and the Decline of Civic Virtue
Claire Snyder-Hall utilizes J.G.A. Pocock, Putnam’s Bowling Alone, Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? to argue that commercial…
Adventure through the revolution and its association of free peoples, learn from its practical and spiritual attitudes, style and dynamic ways of life and practice. We radically diverge from the modern consumerist life and political habits, and choose the quickening fire of martial wisdom, revolution, illumination and civic responsibility. This philosophy belongs to a people no longer wishing to be children, but upholders of worlds, states, commonwealths, economies and ordered liberty.
From Cicero’s republic through Charlemagne’s commonwealth and Petrarch’s revival of letters to the Republican Revolutions, one tradition alone has fought arbitrary power in every age, the civic republican tradition, and we fight for its living continuation. The republican tradition as a noble cause of Humanism is not yet spent. It was from antiquity to the early modern period, the deliberate result of eclecticism and synthesis. A reinvigoration of its ideal and civic philosophy within our thought, life, politics and culture is the best strategy to save, advance and fortify our democratic institutions, civic literacy and human ingenuity.
To give you fire for strategizing civic power and producing the armament of ideas for citizens to arm their minds to preserve, shield, aid and advance the Republic. Hold each other accountable, heirs to all the world’s wisdom.
