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NEW ISSUE: In Telos 216 (Fall 2026): Dangers to Democracy, we examine the challenges to democracy posed by the declining commitment to open debate, evidence-based reasoning, and pluralism. Read David Pan's introduction in our blog:
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New in Telos Insights: Mohadeseh Salari Sardari argues that the Islamic Republic perpetuates Qajar-style rule through repression, elite hypocrisy, manipulated history, and clerical supremacy, but Iranians already see themselves as citizens, not subjects.
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New in Telos Insights: Robert Schuett argues that Hans Kelsen is the true realist: conceding much of Schmitt’s diagnosis that power is irreducible, Kelsen insists that only centralized, enforceable international law, not sovereign decisionism or the prudent statesman, can constrain it.
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NEW: Available Nov. 1 from Telos Press: Carl Schmitt's State, Movement, People: The Tripartite Structure of Political Unity. Pre-order your copy today and save 20% with coupon code SCHMITT20.
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Available November 1 on @TelosPress !
Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Joseph W. Bendersky. With a Preface by David Pan.
Written in 1933, "State, Movement, People" presents Carl Schmitt’s controversial attempt to explain the political and legal order of the new III Reich.
NEW: Available Nov. 1 from Telos Press: Carl Schmitt's State, Movement, People: The Tripartite Structure of Political Unity. Pre-order your copy today and save 20% with coupon code SCHMITT20.
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NEW ISSUE: In Telos 216 (Fall 2026): Dangers to Democracy, we examine the challenges to democracy posed by the declining commitment to open debate, evidence-based reasoning, and pluralism. Read David Pan's introduction in our blog:
telospress.com/telos-216-fal…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2027 Telos Conference in New York. We invite paper proposals on the topic "Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI." Abstract submissions due 10/30. Complete details at our website:
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New in Telos Insights: Thomas Fröhlich traces China’s evolving view of the West, from spatial other with little intrinsic connection to China, to model of progress, to historical equal and rival [in Chinese, with English summary].
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New in Telos Insights: Lukas Sarvari explains why Iran’s Islamic Republic is structurally incapable of political normalization due to its revolutionary ideology, arguing that lasting sovereignty requires regime change and popular self-determination by Iranians.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2027 Telos Conference in New York. We invite paper proposals on the topic "Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI." Complete details at our website:
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New in Telos Insights: Sun Feiyu on the sociologist Wu Wenzao, who pioneered the Sinicization of sociology by training scholars, engaging Western theory, and grounding research in Chinese society and fieldwork [in Chinese, with English summary].
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New in Telos Insights: Sabine Beppler-Spahl argues that left populism has abandoned national sovereignty for transnational causes, alienating domestic voters while converging with anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Telos on Karl Wittfogel's account of hydraulic societies and how it might illuminate emerging patterns of governance, state-society relations, and world order.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Telos on Karl Wittfogel's account of hydraulic societies and how it might illuminate emerging patterns of governance, state-society relations, and world order.
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New in Telos Insights: Michael S. Kochin @mskochin argues that American universities lost their national purpose after the Cold War, drifting into globalized "excellence" and postcolonial ideology, and calls for reforms that reorient them toward national service.
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New in Telos Insights: Karthick Ram Manoharan on how India's Maoist insurgency and communist parties are collapsing, as anti-BJP protests show Ambedkar and the Constitution replacing Marxism as leftist symbols.
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The Telos Press Podcast is back! In today's episode, Telos editor David Pan talks with Alvise Capria about the reception of Carl Schmitt in contemporary Chinese political thought.
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The Telos Press Podcast is back! In today's episode, Telos editor David Pan talks with Alvise Capria about the reception of Carl Schmitt in contemporary Chinese political thought.
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