Jesse Russell

May 23, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Peter Moore |Jesse Russell |Thomas Savidge |David Schaefer

Two decades into the twenty-first century, the Enlightenment is increasingly depicted in a negative light. Some in the postliberal New Right largely view the Enlightenment as the beginning of the decline of the West. Instead of celebrating capitalism, liberalism, and empirical science as forces that propelled the West and the wider world, they view these Enlightenment phenomena as the root of selfish individualism, rapacious monetary policies, and destructive and enslaving technology.

Apr 12, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre |Mark Pulliam |Brenda Hafera |Jesse Russell

In his keynote address at the National Symposium for Classical Education in February, Daniel Scoggin, co-founder of the classical charter school network Great Hearts Academies, traced the decline of classical education in America back to liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, ideas that, in his telling, unleashed an individualism, industrialism, and relativism antithetical to any education oriented to truth, beauty, and goodness.

Feb 13, 2023 | voegelinview.com | William Doyle |Jesse Russell

Jesse Russell is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has contributed to a wide variety of academic journals, including Political Theology, Politics and Religion, and New Blackfriars.

Feb 10, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Joseph Bottum |Titus Techera |Mark Pulliam |Jesse Russell

Mr. Joseph Bottum is the leading scholar of religious and cultural decline in America in our time. His two major essays on the theme are An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America (2014) and The Decline of The Novel (2019).

Feb 3, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Jesse Russell |Mark Pulliam

Ridley Scott’s 2000 masterpiece Gladiator stands as one of the most important films of the 21st century, and one of the greatest action movies in cinematic history. Replete with exciting battle scenes and gladiatorial contests, the film dazzled audiences and helped revive the “sword and sandal” genre for the post-millennial era. The film was not merely spectacle, however.