Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

Who Was Carl Schmitt?

Who Was Carl Schmitt?
(Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin)

“As just another political theology—albeit an especially vulgar one—liberalism would, paradoxically, be put into contexts where it abandoned a commitment to rights for the sake of protecting itself.”

Timeless reading in a fleeting world.

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