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10. In a tribute to Gurian after his death, “The Significance of the Review of Politics,”

Nef points out that the Committee on Social Thought tried to found its own journal in

1949, but this publication met an early demise, unlike the Review which thrived. See The

Review of Politics 17, no. 1 ( January 1955): 24–32.

11. In the words of his son, the anthropologist Paul Friedrich. Unpublished lecture

given to the Director’s Conference of the Newspaper Association of America, April 1, 2006.

12. Somewhat like Gurian, Friedrich attributed some of the responsibility for Chris-

tianity’s decline to religious thinkers like Aquinas who, in his view, mistakenly helped to

give the state legitimacy.

13. This stance was not based upon any religious faith on Friedrich’s part. According

to Paul Friedrich (see note 11 above), his father stated during his naturalization proce-

dures that his religion was “Homer.”

14. For background, see Dana Villa, “Introduction: The development of Arendt’s po-

litical thought” and Margaret Canovan, “Arendt’s theory of totalitarianism: A reassess-

ment” in Dana Villa, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge, U. K.:

Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1–24 and 25–43, respectively.

15. The year 1962 also marks the publication date of the last article in this volume

(chapter 22), John U. Nef ’s “Is the Intellectual Life an End in Itself ?” The Review of Poli-

tics 24, no. 1 ( January 1962): 3–18.

16. Although the subject is not as new as some think, the political scientist Samuel

Huntington engaged this issue in 1993 with a controversial statement about the coming

“clash of civilizations.” See his full treatment of the topic in The Clash of Civilizations and

the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006). Roger Scruton has

presented a similar, but more differentiated view (which could easily have appeared in

The Review of Politics) in The West and the Rest (Wilmington, DE: Institute of Intercolle-

giate Studies Books, 2002).

17. The Editors, “The Hundred Years of Notre Dame,” The Review of Politics 4, no. 4

(October 1942): 378.

18. I am referring to Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt,

Brace & World, 1973).

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