Joseph R. Wood

Two strategic thinkers of the famed French military academy at St. Cyr, Thomas Flichy de La Neuville and Olivier Hanne, have produced an important new study entitled Geoculture: Plaidoyer pour une civilization durable. 

In a recent article for The American Interest, Prof. Joseph Wood discussed the views of Plato and Aristotle concerning an order which is not ours to alter, and the relevance of this order for politics.

The American founders signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and gave our country the form of government they thought best suited to the pursuit of authentic happiness by a people of enormous talent yet fallen nature.

We Americans like to think of our political arrangements as permanent and unchangeable. The Constitution displayed in temple-like fashion in the National Archives is the very document adopted in 1789 that gave rise to our Republic. But permanence is not a principle of justice.

LLoudly secular France is now engaged in a hot war, in its former imperial domain of Africa, against Islamist killers – the ultimate anti-secularists.

In a recent article on the website of The Catholic Thing entitled “Natural Law and the Present Turmoil”, IWP Professor Joseph Wood discusses the concept of a natural law and how it ties into international relations.