Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
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‘The Reactionary Mind’: An Exchange
February 23, 2012
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Republicans for Revolution
January 12, 2012
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
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Montaigne’s Case for Ignorance
September 29, 2011
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How Intellectuals Dropped Out
May 12, 2011
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Daniel Bell (1919–2011)
April 7, 2011
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The Hidden Lesson of Montaigne
March 24, 2011
How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
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The Historic Election: Four Views
December 9, 2010
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The Beck of Revelation
December 9, 2010
Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
by Glenn Beck, with Joseph Kerry
The Overton Window
by Glenn Beck, with contributions by Kevin Balfe, Emily Bestler, and Jack Henderson
Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
by Alexander Zaitchik
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
by Dana Milbank
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‘The Tea Party Jacobins’: An Exchange
August 19, 2010
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The Tea Party Jacobins
May 27, 2010
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop, with Robert G. Cushing
Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again
by David Frum
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism
by Marc J. Hetherington
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
by Max Blumenthal
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A New, Political Saint Paul?
October 23, 2008
What Paul Meant
by Garry Wills
The Political Theology of Paul
by Jacob Taubes, translated from the German by Dana Hollander
The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans
by Giorgio Agamben, translated from the Italian by Patricia Dailey
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
by Alain Badiou, translated from the French by Ray Brassier
Being and Event
by Alain Badiou, translated from the French by Oliver Feltham
The Century
by Alain Badiou, translated from the French with commentary and notes by Alberto Toscano
Polemics
by Alain Badiou, translated from the French with an introductionby Steve Corcoran
Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe by Éric Marty
On Belief
by Slavoj Zizek
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Mr. Casaubon in America
June 28, 2007
The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
by Eric Voegelin
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The ADL and Tony Judt: An Exchange
November 30, 2006
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The Case of Tony Judt: An Open Letter to the ADL
November 16, 2006
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Slouching Toward Athens
June 23, 2005
From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History
by Christian Meier, translated from the German by Deborah Lucas Schneider
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The Closing of the Straussian Mind
November 4, 2004
The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now
by Carnes Lord
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
by Anne Norton
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Leo Strauss: The European
October 21, 2004
Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 1: Die Religionskritik Spinozas und zugehörige Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier
Gesammelte Schriften, ol. 2: Philosophie und Gesetz— Frühe Schriften by Leo Strauss,edited by Heinrich Meier
Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 3: Hobbes’ politische Wissenschaft und zugehörige Schriften—Briefe by Leo Strauss, edited by Heinrich Meier
Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921–1932) translated from the Germanand edited by Michael Zank
Tussen Athene en Jeruzalem: Filosofie, profetie en politiek in het werk van Leo Strauss by David Janssens
Die Denkbewegung von Leo Strauss: Die Geschichte der Philosophie und die Intentionen des Philosophen by Heinrich Meier
Das theologisch-politische Problem: Zum Thema von Leo Strauss by Heinrich Meier
Leo Strauss: Une biographie intellectuelle by Daniel Tanguay
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The Big E
June 12, 2003
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
by Susan Neiman
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A Battle for Religion
December 5, 2002
The Star of Redemption
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German by William W. Hallo
Philosophical and Theological Writings
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German and edited by Paul W. Franks and Michael L. Morgan
Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig
edited and translated from the German by Barbara E. Galli, with a foreword by Leora Batnitzky
God, Man, and the World: Lectures and Essays
by Franz Rosenzweig, edited and translated from the German by Barbara E. Galli, with a foreword by Michael Oppenheim
Franz Rosenzweig’s “The New Thinking”
edited and translated from the German by Alan Udoff and Barbara E. Galli
On Jewish Learning
by Franz Rosenzweig, edited by N.N. Glatzer
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
by Peter Eli Gordon
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God
by Franz Rosenzweig, translated from the German and with an introduction by Nahum Glatzer, and an introduction by Hilary Putnam
Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered
by Leora Batnitzky
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
by Eric L. Santner
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
by Nahum N. Glatzer, with a foreword by Paul-Mendes Flohr
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The New Age of Tyranny
October 24, 2002
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Inside the Clockwork
April 25, 2002
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
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The Lure of Syracuse
September 20, 2001
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Night Thoughts
November 30, 2000
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Whatever
by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the Frenchby Paul Hammond
Rester vivant et autres textes
H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie
by Michel Houellebecq
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‘Justice Is Conflict’
June 15, 2000
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Philosophy for a Messy World
May 11, 2000
Justice Is Conflict
by Stuart Hampshire
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The Perils of Friendship
December 2, 1999
Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse by Hannah Arendt, by Martin Heidegger, edited by Ursula Ludz
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Ménage à Trois
November 18, 1999
Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse by Hannah Arendt, by Martin Heidegger, edited by Ursula Ludz
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The Politics of Jacques Derrida
June 25, 1998
History of Structuralism
by François Dosse, translated by Deborah Glassman
The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe by Jacques Derrida, translated by Pascale-Anne Brault, by Michael B. Naas
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International
by Jacques Derrida, translated by Peggy Kamuf
Force de loi by Jacques Derrida
Moscou aller-retour by Jacques Derrida
Politics of Friendship
by Jacques Derrida, translated by George Collins
Cosmopolites de tous les pays, encore un effort! by Jacques Derrida
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Reactions
June 25, 1998
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A Tale of Two Reactions
May 14, 1998
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A Bone for the Nazis
June 12, 1997
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The Enemy of Liberalism
May 15, 1997
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt, translated and introduced by George Schwab, with a new foreword by Tracy B. Strong
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, translated by Erna Hilfstein
Roman Catholicism and Political Form by Carl Schmitt, translated by G.L. Ulmen
Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947-1951 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem
Staat, Grossraum, Nomos: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1916-1969 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Günther Maschke
Der Fall Carl Schmitt: Sein Aufstieg zum “Kronjuristen des Dritten Reiches” by Andreas Koenen
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue by Heinrich Meier, translated by J. Harvey Lomax, foreword by Joseph Cropsey
Die Lehre Carl Schmitts: Vier Kapitel zur Unterscheidung Politischer Theologie und Politischer Philosophie by Heinrich Meier
Der Katechon: Zu Carl Schmitts fundamentalistischer Kritik der Zeit by Günter Meuter
Carl Schmitt: Eine Biographie by Paul Noack
Die eigentlich katholische Verschärfung: Konfession, Theologie und Politik im Werk Carl Schmitts edited by Bernd Wacker
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The Riddle of Walter Benjamin
May 25, 1995
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 19101940 edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem, by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Manfred Jacobson, translated by Evelyn Jacobson
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Filippic
September 16, 2011
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The Nation We Have, Not the Nation We Wish For
November 4, 2010
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French Strikers & the Tea Party: Mark Lilla Responds
October 23, 2010
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Tea Party à la française
October 20, 2010
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One Set of Shoulders: China's Hidden Revolution
August 24, 2010