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

Conservative Conversations with ISI

Jul 25, 2023

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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

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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:

Become a part of ISI:

Conservative Conversations with ISI