Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

Trump’s State Of Exception

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Luke Ford

The government took away many rights during Covid by invoking a state of emergency, and now Trump & Elon are implicitly stating that America is in a state of emergency, and that the executive has to grab the rudder to … Continue reading →

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What Is The Role Of The State?

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Luke Ford

From the 2019 book, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt: * Oakeshott concedes that authority is seldom durable, no matter the form of political organization achieved. Anarchy always lurks “just below the surface,” and once authority is questioned or denied, … Continue reading →

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Depoliticizing Power

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner wrote in 1989: Carl Schmitt’s renovated Hobbesianism, with its insistence on the antithesis between authority and truth contained in the Hobbist slogan auctoritas, non veritas facit legem, (law is decided by authority, not by truth) provides the dialectical … Continue reading →

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Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from a 2010 paper in the Minnesota Law Review by two Yale University law professors, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin: “I’m the commander-see, I don’t need to explain-I do not need to explain why I … Continue reading →

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NYT: CARL J. FRIEDRICH DIES AT 83; INFLUENTIAL HARVARD PROFESSOR

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Luke Ford

Joseph Berger wrote in 1983 for the New York Times: Having lived in an era which saw the rise of Nazism and the spread of Communism, Dr. Friedrich sometimes took a dour view of the human inclination for freedom. In … Continue reading →

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