Luke Foster
@gurueluke
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Knight errant, moçambicano, would-be philosopher-poet. In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen. PhD @uchicago. Professor @HillsdaleInDC. Opinions are mine alone.
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2013
RT @AntigoneJournal: A prize-winning Latin poem on King Alfred's defence of England against the Danes, written at Cambridge by the 20-yr-ol….
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One of the joys of teaching at @HillsdaleInDC is the range of elective modular courses we offer, each focused on a great text or question. I was interviewed about my upcoming class on Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws," with a full house of students signed up!
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RT @SipOfKoKo: For those unaware, nations like Botswana allowed rich Westerners to come shoot aging rhinos snd elephants for like, $150k a….
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RT @hmkherman: Not particularly hot take, because it's just true: . Chapels on Catholic college campuses should be mostly quire not mostly….
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RT @Hieraaetus: The area of what was once Gaul went through a truly remarkable process of ethnogenesis in the period between 1-600 AD. Fro….
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RT @MTMehan: St. Augustine's teaching, about the nature of evil and the powerful and fallen desire of mankind to make and live by one's own….
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RT @MIHJournal: Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster @g….
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Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in Publius and Adams: Transposing the Society of Orders to the Commercial Republic
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I'm honored to have had my work featured by @MIHJournal! Montesquieu and Adams on oligarchy and populism are more relevant than ever. Reforming elites requires rethinking their incentives for honor. This is also foundational to real higher ed reform.
Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster @gurueluke analyzes Montesquieu’s case for honor in Publius and Adams during the early U.S. republic
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RT @Tom_Antonov: I still think about those French soldiers in Dunkirk opening scene. #TheLastStand
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RT @yuanyi_z: There is a lot of talk about toppling imperial monuments in London. Meanwhile, this is what is happening in Madras (Chennai)….
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RT @HillsdaleInDC: ATTEND | Join Hillsdale in D.C.'s Dr. Matthew Spalding, Dr. @MTMehan, and Chris Malagisi as they discuss the unique aspe….
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RT @RouvierArmand: @Vermeullarmine Hence, Ellie Carcasonne’s Montesquieu et le problème de la constitution française au XVIIIe siècle remai….
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RT @metathomist: Objection 1: It seems Catholic men err in telling women about Thomism instead of complimenting them. For affection is expr….
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RT @MCMCD_: I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019. Lately, I have been thinking of these lines from Erich Kästner (an author I….
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I’m delighted to have had my work featured by @HillsdaleInDC! The class this fall, on the Spirit of the Laws, but also on the Persian Letters, the Considerations on the Romans, and Montesquieu’s American readers, addresses some of the deepest questions of modern politics.
What's the connection between Montesquieu and the American Founders?. Our very own @gurueluke, who is teaching the Graduate School of Government's first-ever course on Montesquieu this fall, explores his understanding of monarchy, aristocracy, and commercial republics, and how.
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"Although this transposition reflects Montesquieu’s own.principle that political forms should be adapted to each people’s context, their decision.to jettison corporate representation has obscured class dynamics and even the threat.of oligarchy in American politics.".
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"John Adams develops a more classical republicanism aligned with.Montesquieu’s account of the British Constitution, while Hamilton and Madison as.Publius opt for the individualist account of representation given the lack of a hereditary aristocracy in America.
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The honor motive doesn't disappear in democratic and commercial societies; we just lose the vocabulary to name it. John Adams, the greatest American heir of Montesquieu, understood this. My latest in the journal of Modern Intellectual History:
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