Glenn Ellmers on The Failure of Modernity, Plato and Foucault, and the Return of Natural Right

In this episode:

• Glenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Narrow Passage, about the permanent political problems that stem from reason in politics
• how the modern project rejects the humility of the classical tradition, and has ushered in the philosophic tyranny of the modern administrative state and woke ideology 
• why the Left is built upon a contradiction between postmodernism and a belief in rational post-political expertise

Texts Mentioned:

• The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers
• “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jonathan Haidt
• “German Nihilism” by Leo Strauss
• The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America by Glenn Ellmers
• claremont.org
• “PODCAST: Glenn Ellmers on Harry Jaffa and the Soul of Politics” by The Anchoring Truths Podcast

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