New in Telos Insights: Felix Brender argues that China’s purported neutrality in response to the October 7 attacks masked a longstanding alignment with Palestinian framing, rooted in anti-colonial solidarity and a bid for Global South leadership. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/china-afte...

China after October 7: Selective Neutrality and the Politics of “Principle”

by Felix Brender 王哲謙

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New in Telos Insights: Azam Jahandideh and Tomasz Wiśniewski examine Iran's political, social, and historical crises, arguing that the country's deeper crisis lies in Iranian political mentality, not merely in the current regime. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/iran-today...

Iran Today: Convergence of Catastrophes

by Azam Jahandideh and Tomasz Wiśniewski

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New in Telos Insights: Sabine Beppler-Spahl on how Germany's anti-AfD firewall (Brandmauer) restricts political participation and erodes confidence in democratic institutions. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-anti-a...

The Anti-AfD Firewall and Germany’s Problem with Democracy

by Sabine Beppler-Spahl

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New in Telos Insights: Mohadeseh Salari Sardari argues that the new Obama Presidential Center evokes an architecture of power that uses scale and monumentality to assert authority rather than invite participation. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-castle...

The Castle in Chicago: The Obama Presidential Center and the Architecture of Power

by Mohadeseh Salari Sardari

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New in Telos Insights: Mohadeseh Salari Sardari argues that the Islamic Republic did not invent clerical rule but revived Qajar patterns of governance, seeking to turn citizens back into governable, silent subjects. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/subjects-n...

Subjects, Not Citizens: The Qajar Roots of the Islamic Republic

by Mohadeseh Salari Sardari

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NEW ISSUE: In Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty, we examine how Chinese engagement with Western thinkers has shaped competing visions of sovereignty and world order. Read David Pan's introduction to the issue in our blog. www.telospress.com/telos-215-su...

Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty

Telos 215 examines how China has engaged with Western thinkers to develop its own basis for sovereignty and its vision for world order.

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REGISTER TODAY! "The Specter of Sovereignty: Populism, Antisemitism, and the New Class," a two-day conference on July 30–31, 2026, in Potsdam, Germany. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-specte...

The Specter of Sovereignty: Populism, Antisemitism, and the New Class

A two-day conference exploring challenges to national sovereignty, expert rule, and the resurgence of antisemitism in the West.

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New in Telos Insights: Gregory J. Lobo on Colombia's recent presidential election and the return of sovereignty as the fundamental issue of politics. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/sovereignt...

Sovereignty and the Colombian Presidential Elections

by Gregory J. Lobo

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New in Telos Insights: Tim Rosenberger argues that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. Cook treats the Federal Reserve as a modern temple exempt from the president's supervisory authority. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-temple...

The Temple Exception: Trump v. Cook and the Sacral Constitution of Money

by Tim Rosenberger

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NEW VIDEO: A panel discussion on the nature of the regime in China, from the recent UCI event on China, Taiwan, and the United States. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/china-taiw...

China, Taiwan, and the U.S.: Should We Worry? The Nature of the Regime in China

A panel discussion from the UC Irvine event on "China, Taiwan, and the U.S.: Decisions Today That Will Shape the World of Tomorrow"

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New in Telos Insights: Anita Ukaenwe on how demographic change and religious decline complicate far-right appeals to a nostalgic “Christian Britain” as a marker of national identity. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/rethinking...

Rethinking “Christian Britain”: Religion and National Identity in a Changing Society

by Anita Ukaenwe

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New in Telos Insights: Mahdi Panjalipour on how apocalyptic thinking in Iran shapes both state power and the resistance to it, undermining the possibility of durable political organization. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-politi...

The Politics of the End: Political Theology and Resistance in Iran

by Mahdi Panjalipour

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New in Telos Insights: Mark G.E. Kelly on the sudden, spectacular rise of One Nation, Australia's right-wing populist party. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-one-na...

The One Nation Conundrum: The Strange Case of Australian Populism

by Mark G. E. Kelly

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New in Telos Insights: Sabine Beppler-Spahl on how Germany’s postwar commitment to “defensive democracy” is increasingly being used to restrict speech, police dissent, and narrow the space for legitimate political debate. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-erosio...

The Erosion of Free Expression in Germany

by Sabine Beppler-Spahl

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New in Telos Insights: Peter Herman reviews Omer Bartov's Israel: What Went Wrong?, arguing that the book's genocide claims rely on weak evidence, omit key context, and give intellectual cover to antisemitic attacks on Israel. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/whats-wron...

What’s Wrong with Omer Bartov’s “What Went Wrong?”

by Peter C. Herman

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New in Telos Insights: Reflecting on the Kristof controversy at the NYT, Eliyahu Sapir argues that modern journalism has lost the "epistemic latency" necessary for sound judgment and now rewards rapid moral certainty over evidence and verification. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-collap...

The Collapse of Epistemic Latency: Reflections on Journalism, Judgment, and the Kristof Controversy

by Eliyahu V. Sapir

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New in Telos Insights: Renée Fregosi on how the author Boualem Sansal has become the target of left-wing propaganda. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/boualem-sa...

Boualem Sansal, a Free Man Hated by a Certain Segment of the Left

by Renée Fregosi

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New in Telos Insights: Russell A. Berman on Konrad Weiss's 1933 essay "The Christian Epimetheus," whose negative political theology influenced Carl Schmitt. We also present an English translation of the essay's conclusion. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/konrad-wei...

Konrad Weiss on the Christian Epimetheus: A Negative Political Theology Adjacent to Carl Schmitt

by Russell A. Berman

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New in Telos Insights: Adrian Pabst on the fragmentation of British politics following the end of two-party dominance, and the case for a new political settlement built on cultural moderation, economic renewal, and accountable government. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/british-po...

British Politics after the Demise of National Parties

by Adrian Pabst

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Tim Rosenberger reflects on last weekend's attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and how secular ethics, lacking Christianity's prohibition on sacrifice, produces individuals who reason their way to political violence. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/caiaphas-a...

Caiaphas at the Hilton: The Friendly Federal Assassin and the Return of Human Sacrifice

by Tim Rosenberger

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New in Telos Insights: Tony Spanakos on the foreign policy of the second Trump administration and the new era of great power relations. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/trumps-new...

Trump’s New Great Power Relations?

by Tony Spanakos

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New in Telos Insights: Thomas Zimmer on the complex attitude of contemporary Chinese intellectuals toward the West [in Chinese, with English summary] insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-grand-...

The “Grand Chorus” of Chinese Intellectuals

by Thomas Zimmer

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New in Telos Insights: Tim Rosenberger discusses how Pope Leo XIV's recent anti-war statements conflict with Catholic just war doctrine and depart from established Church teaching on use of force. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-prince...

The Prince of Peace and the Sword of History: Pope Leo XIV, Just War, and the Christian Tradition

by Tim Rosenberger

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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Register today for a panel discussion at the Univ. of California, Irvine, on the nature of the regime in China, the threat to Taiwan, and what the US should do to face this threat. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/china-taiw...

China, Taiwan, and the U.S.: Decisions Today That Will Shape the World of Tomorrow

A Panel Discussion at University of California, Irvine. Register today!

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New in Telos Insights: Alexandra Farkas Bandl examines how the myth of German-Jewish normality masks persistent unease and deep-seated reservations rooted in both historical experience and present-day relations. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-myth-o...

The Myth of German-Jewish Normality

by Alexandra Farkas Bandl

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New in Telos Insights: Tim Rosenberger on Pope Leo XIV's recent address to the Vatican Tribunal, the limitations of legal positivism, and the role of virtue, moral formation, and charity in achieving justice. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/ordered-ch...

Ordered Charity and the Crisis of Legal Positivism: On Pope Leo XIV’s Address to the Vatican Tribunal

by Tim Rosenberger

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New in Telos Insights: Alexander Sollfrank, Commander of Germany’s Joint Operational Command, discusses the prospect of war in Europe, how it might begin, and what Germany and NATO can do to prepare for a Russian assault. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-pendin...

The Pending War in Europe: An Interview with Alexander Sollfrank

by Russell A. Berman

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New in Telos Insights: As part of TPPI's China Initiative, we are posting a series of essays in Chinese (with brief English summaries). We begin today with Luo Feng (罗峰) on the study of classics in China and its relation to civilizational self-awareness. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/the-constr...

The Construction of Classics and the Question of Civilizational Self-Awareness in China

by Luo Feng (罗峰)

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New in Telos Insights: Russell A. Berman on the passing of German novelist Peter Schneider, whose perceptive essay for Telos on the intervention in Kosovo contains important lessons for us today. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/peter-schn...

Peter Schneider in "Telos"

by Russell A. Berman

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New in Telos Insights: Russell Berman on Telos's long intellectual engagement with Jürgen Habermas, from debates over the public sphere and differing political contexts to a later convergence on religion. insights.telosinstitute.net/p/jurgen-hab...

Jürgen Habermas, Telos, and the Paths of Critical Theory

by Russell A. Berman

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