Telos

Article	Citations
From Kant to Krupp—and Kiev: Vladimir Ern on Kantianism as a Source of War, 1914 and Today	4
Introduction	3
Barbarism by Any Other Name: Eliminating the NEA and NEH	2
Introduction	2
Carl Schmitt and Friedrich Hölderlin on the Earth	2
Academic Freedom in the Absence of Tenure: Global Lessons from the Australian Experience	2
Imbuing Liberalism with Lost Spirit: Timothy Stacey	2
World Spirit in an Electric Vehicle: Elon Musk and the 2024 Presidential Election	2
Introduction	2
Introduction	1
The Jüngerian Question of Technology	1
The New Class Conflict Gets Worse	1
Limiting Academic Freedom to Protect Freedom of Speech	1
A Moral Core in a Political Realist: A Centennial Reappraisal of Carl Schmitt’s	1
Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”	1
Shun (順): Active Allegiance and Passive Governance in Confucianism	1
Digital Sovereignty as Postliberalism: A Response to Milton Mueller’s Open Letter	1
Narrative with Commentary: Levinasian Discourse Theory	1
Empire (帝国): Tracing Its Historical Conceptualization in Modern Northeast Asia	0
Trump, Populism, and the New Class	0
The Second Coming of theTianxiaEmpire?A Theopolitical Interpretation of the (Coming) Sino-Taiwan War	0
Navigating Tension and Integration: Cultivating Positive Interaction between Governance and State-Building	0
Social Media Cannot Be the Public Sphere: On Network Opinion Field from Habermas’s Public Sphere	0
Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution for Democratic Despotism	0
Autonomy as Political Ideal of Liberalism	0

The Columbia University Encampment: Joseph Massad, Peter Beinart, and the Future of Campus Antisemitism	0
Public Justification in Flawed Democracies	0
Daobi (倒逼): “Reverse Force” on the Chinese Path to Modernization	0
Russians as a “Warrior Nation”: The Formation of a Stereotype in China	0
Pre-reflective Self-awareness and Polyperspectivity in Chinese Landscape Painting	0
The End of the Academy as We Knew It	0
Human Rights and Nation-State Sovereignty	0
Dujing (读经): A Radical Grassroots Confucianism	0
Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics	0
Introduction	0
The European Way(s) of Democracy: Chances and Challenges of Democratic Legitimacy in the European Construction	0
Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”	0
What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments	0
Introduction to the Special Section on Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023: Uncritical Theory and Antisemitic Semiotics	0
Is Communist China a New Type of Civilization? The Civilizational Argument in Contemporary Chinese Ideology	0
The Trump Restoration	0
The Forms of War after 1945: From a World of “Great Wars” to a Planet for “Special Military Operations”	0
Postliberalism as Ethos	0
Ideas of History and the History of Ideas: The Case of the Rustat Monument	0
Postliberalism and the Realization of the Common Good	0
Is Democracy Compatible with Christianity? Sergei Bulgakov on the Connection between Democracy and Atheism (or, On the Political Order as Always Already an Act of Sacred Representation)	0
The “Mythological Machine” of Antisemitism: The Recycling of False Accusations against Jews in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	0
Sous l’œil des Chinois	0
DEI in the Globalizing University	0
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Legitimacy—and the Capacity of Regimes to Support Intellectual Production	0
Nationality of Food: Cultural Politics on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Museums	0
Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in China: Reply to Salvatore Babones and Eric Hendriks	0
Conservative Revolution Today: Postliberalism and Common Good	0
The Commission on Unalienable Rights: Where Do We Go from Here?	0
Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights	0
Understanding Chinese Political Study: Historical and Fieldwork Political Study Revisited	0
notes and commentaries	0
The End of Affirmative Action Will Help Blacks and Hispanics	0
Trump’s New “Golden Age” for America: “This is going to be great television”	0
Some Politics are Local: Homogeneity, Identity, and Legal Revolution in American Democracy	0
Carl Schmitt, Nazism, and the Silence of Chinese Intellectuals	0
Welcome to the Machine: AI, Existential Risk, and the Iron Cage of Modernity	0
The Use and Abuse of Rousseau’s The Social Contract in Modern Political Thought: Toward a Reinterpretation	0
Introduction	0
The 2024 Presidential Election: The Triumph of “the Wily” over “the Woke”	0
Comfort in Rootlessness	0
“Oriental Despotism,” Meritocracy, and the Fate of the Global New Class	0
Palestine Avenue	0
Cultural Self-Confidence (文化自信) and Cultural Subjectivity (文化主体性): An Ontology of Self and Subject	0
The Carnival King	0
The Three Layers of China’s Politeia	0
The Confluence of Western Monotheism and Eastern Buddhism as a Potent Force for World Peace	0
Non-Domination (非宰制): Republican Liberty and Democratic Memory in Taiwan	0
From Ideology to Strategy	0
A Professional-Managerial Imperium: The National Security State and American Power	0

Trump, Disruption, and the Bureaucracy	0
The New Tianxia (新天下): Thinking Empire without Religion	0
The Jewish Body and the Trans Community after October 7: A Tale of Misidentification	0
The Tensions between Socioeconomic Reforms and Islamic Doctrines in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030	0
Deweyan Democracy, Secular Religion, and Hegelian Selfhood	0
Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging	0
Family, Tragedy, Democracy, and Populism: The Exchange between Jessica Benjamin and Christopher Lasch	0
Anticipation, Social Theory, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves	0
Academic Freedom in New Zealand	0
Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug: Voting for Trump in 2024	0
Introduction	0
Immanent Critique without Rupture	0
The Anaesthetic Crisis of Work and Leisure: On Byung-Chul Han’sThe Palliative Society	0
Introduction	0
The Savage Savants	0
Learning from Defeat: Sadik al-Azm and the Arab Defeat in 1967	0
In Memoriam: Fred Siegel	0
For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies ofSFFA v. Harvard	0
From Cultural Policing to Culture War: Donald Trump, the Woke War, and Academic Freedom	0
Controls (統制): The Origins and Logic of Modern Chinese Technocracy	0
Schmitt and the Rising Sun: The Early Reception of Carl Schmitt’s Thought in Imperial Japan	0
Defending Liberalism against Its Postliberal Critics	0
China’s Schmitt Fever	0
Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology	0
Trump and the “Golden Age”	0
Making the Hive Great Again: Spiritual Assault and the Politics of Erasure	0
We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’sHistory of SexualityVolume 1 Revisited	0
What Is the Point of Theory?	0
Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Boredom	0
China, Sovereignty, and World Order	0
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory	0
“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations	0
The Return of Politics: Of Fire and Other Elements	0
Dignity and Human Rights: Aspirations and Challenges in an Age of Political Divisions, Distrust, and AI	0
Toward a Theopolitical of the “International”	0
The Nature of Chinese Communism	0
The Prospects for Higher Education after October 7	0
The Need for Academic Freedom as an Enforceable Legal Right in Australia	0
Introduction	0
Postcolonial Activism: An Infantile Disorder	0
Max Stirner, Identity Politics, and the Demand for Conformity from Its Opponents	0
Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity	0
Prospects for Trump’s Second Term: From Economy to Politics... and Back!	0
Chinese Political Thought Is a Worthy Interlocutor: A Response to Salvatore Babones	0
A Clash of Accelerationism and Adjudication: DOGE’s Attacks on the Administrative State	0
The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests	0
Why Palestinian Violence Fails	0
Democracy in America 2024: Election Notes	0
Back to the Future: Trump, DEI, and Accelerationism	0
The “Cultural Revolution” in China and World Political Thought	0
Realist Internationalism and the Issue of Legitimacy	0
A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shūsaku Endō, and Global IR	0
Reforming Higher Education	0
Engaging the Other Side: Techniques for Mitigating Resistance to Discourse within the Academy	0
Carl Schmitt, Rousseau, and the French Revolution	0
Constitutional Origins of Ethnic Nationalism: Cultural Aporia of a Nation-State	0
The Infinite Conversation: Carl Schmitt on Parliamentarism and Romanticism	0
Natural Law and Unalienable Rights	0
The Early Christian Origins of Secularization	0
Losing Streeck: Echoes of Left Anti-Imperialism in Postliberal Discourse	0
Introduction	0
Failure Is in the Cards	0
Carl Schmitt, Don Quixote,and the Public: A Commentary	0
A Quarter Century of Peace and Prosperity	0
Diversity and the End of Deference	0
Chinese Liberalism (中国自由主义): Contemporary Chinese Liberal Intellectuals and Their “Failed Fight”	0
The Politics of Virtue	0
Human Rights Practice and Natural Law	0
The Paradox of Self-Transformation, or, Could Totalitarianism Ever Succeed?	0
The Nature of the Chinese Regime and What the United States Should Do	0
Byung-Chul Han’s Political Turn	0
Introduction	0
Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right	0
Myth and the Sovereignty of the People in Carl Schmitt’sThe Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy	0
Introduction	0
The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism	0
State-Owned Enterprises (国有企业): Their Evolution and Persistence in Contemporary China	0
Postliberalism: A Genealogy	0
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University	0
If We Could Stop Fighting Ourselves: Could the Implementation of Günther Jakobs’s Feindstrafrecht Bring About a More Fair Criminal Justice System?	0

What Connects Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Josef Redlich?	0
After the Open Society	0
Introduction	0
Chinese Cosmopolitanism (世界主义): A Review of Two Brilliantly Polemical Books	0
Reasonableness and the Idea of the Good in a Time of Crisis	0
Ideas in History: Remembering David Gross	0
Stand Columbia	0
After Liberalism	0
Xi Jinping’s Political Model and the Typology of Communist Regimes: An Ideological Approach	0