Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy. As Carl Schmitt’s intellectual reputation continues to rise in scholarly circles, so does the critical heat surrounding his anti-Semitism. The more ...

Carl Schmitt, a Third Reich jurist and philosopher, saw politics as a life-and-death battle against enemies and democracy as dispensable. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent ...

Carl Schmitt, Antonio Gramsci and Samuel Francis are an ill-assorted trio. Schmitt was the Nazi Party’s favorite legal scholar. Gramsci was a leading Marxist intellectual imprisoned by Mussolini.

The world is going to Schmitt: Carl Schmitt, that is—the famed and shamed “crown jurist” of the Nazi regime. In a piece for The Dispatch, where I spotlight China, I make the case that Schmitt has ...