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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Four Historical Patterns that Expose how Far-Left Ideologies displaced the Civic Republican Tradition
Black Atlantic Republicanism, Classical Republicanism, Contested Models of Liberty, Socialism and the Party-StateTHE HISTORICAL PATTERN OF FAR-LEFT IDEOLOGIES DISPLACING the civic republican tradition is well-documented by historians, but if it were…
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Italian Republicanism in the Risorgimento, Part VI: Transatlantic Networks Influence on American Abolitionist Strategy
Garrison-Mazzini parallels, Fuller’s Roman dispatches, Mazzinian guerrilla warfare influence on John Brown, and the global circulation of ideas leading…
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Black America and the Republican Tradition: A Return to its Philosophy and Ideal
People of African descent in America and the broader diaspora have inherited, rigorously mastered, creatively adapted, institutionally preserved, and…
FEATURED ESSAYS
EDITOR’S LETTERS & BOOK REVIEWS
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The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism
VARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT WEISHAUPT’S PHILOSOPHY RANGED FROM anarchist to secular utopian, republican, and philanthropist. The fact however is —…
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Julian Strube on Public Fascination with “Nazi Occultism”
The public does not take any serious interest and competent research on early National Socialism and esotericism, though are…
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.
