Thinking Politically: Liberalism in the Age of Ideology

Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Arn that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin to the dénouement of the cold war.

Raymond Aron was the foremost political and social theorist in post-World War II France. He authored more than forty books, including Politics and History and In Defense of Decadent Europe, also available from Transaction. Daniel J. Mahoney is associate professor of politics at Assumption College. He is the author of the The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron and De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy. Brian C. Anderson is research associate in social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the literary editor of Crisis. His essays and reviews have appeared in First Things, Interpretation, The Review of Politics, The Salisbury Review, and many other journals.