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About Daniel J. Mahoney
Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University where he held the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship. He is presently a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. He is the author most recently of The Idol of Our Age: How The Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (2018), The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation (2022), and Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton, to be released in November 2022 by St. Augustine’s Press.
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Cardinal Mindszenty and the recovery of heroic Christian virtue

October 14, 2022 Daniel J. Mahoney 10

Many voices in the contemporary Church call for Christians to “accompany” and “dialogue” with those opposed to the Gospel message and ethos. All too often, this becomes accommodation with the spirit of the times. This […]

Analysis

Brothers without Borders: Pope Francis’s Quasi-Humanitarian Manifesto

October 10, 2020 Daniel J. Mahoney 43

Pope Francis has written an encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, on “fraternity and social friendship” that is unique in the history of the genre. It is not addressed to his brother bishops or the universal Church per […]

America on Trial

The American Founding vindicated against its despisers on the Right and Left

July 3, 2020 Daniel J. Mahoney 17

We have arrived at an ominous moment, when the very legitimacy of the American political order has come under systematic assault. America is on trial in ways that few of us could have imagined even […]

The Dispatch

Pursuing truth, beauty, and moral integrity in a culture of ingratitude

June 2, 2019 Daniel J. Mahoney 3

Editor’s note: The following Commencement Address was given on Saturday, June 1, 2019, at Trivium School, in Lancaster, Massachusetts.  The undeniably wise twentieth century French political philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel once unironically noted that “the […]

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