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Kenneth Minogue

Kenneth Minogue is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics.

Articles

Swimming with "Leviathan" (Features) , March 2013, 4
Reconsidering Hobbes magnum opus with the release of a new edition.

A march of folly (Manners & morals) , October 2012, 33
On progressives, Feminism, and gay rights.

A dislocated society? (Books) , September 2012, 73

A grand old party (Books) , March 2012, 73

Morals & the servile mind (Features) , June 2010, 4
On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.

Marriage in our time (Manners & morals) , June 2009, 32
On matrimony in a culture of convenience.

Conservatism & the morality of impulse (Features) , January 2008, 8
On the challenges of responding to modernist morality.

A triumvirate for our time (Books) , February 2007, 60
On The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, by John OSullivan.

Seduction & politics (Features) , November 2006, 17
The moral and political history of seduction.

Democracy & political naivety (Features) , March 2006, 4
What is the major problem with democracy?

Maurice Cowling, 1926-2005 (Notebook) , November 2005, 78
On the life and work of a great teacher and TNC contributor.

Two concepts of the moral life (Features) , September 2005, 38
Britain Today: Part VII
Kenneth Minogue explores the moral life, or lack thereof, of modern Britain, and how it differs from that of past generations.

Journalism: Power without responsibility (Features) , February 2005, 4
An essay on the historical development of journalism and its place in contemporary culture adapted from a lecture given by Kenneth Minogue at the Melbourne Conversazione Society held at Boston University this past October.

Fundamentalism isn't the problem (Fiction Chronicle) , June 2004, 17
On the flaws of “fundamentalism” and the liberal internationalists.

“Christophobia” and the West (Features) , June 2003, 4
On the consequences of secular faiths.

Laughing matters (Books) , March 2003, 74
A review of The Mirth of Nations, by Christie Davies.

Hayek's prophetic scepticism (Features) , May 2002, 26
Upon the publication of Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, by Alan Ebenstein.

The new Epicureans (Features) , September 2001, 6
The first in a series titled “The survival of culture."

How civilizations fall (Features) , April 2001, 4
On the role of radical feminism in the decline of civilization.