This special episode is a recording of a panel at the June 2025 meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in College Park, Maryland. We are grateful to the APL for their permission to publish this recording.
The panel is titled "Book Roundtable – Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority, and Inequality" and the panelists are:
Ethan Alexander-Davey, Campbell University, “Aristocracy and the Forms That Fit”
Matthew T. Cantirino, The University of Dallas, “Henry Adams: Aristocracy in an American?”
Luke C. Sheahan, Duquesne University, “Authority, Hierarchy, and the Social Bond in the Aristocratic Thought of Robert Nisbet”
Michael Federici, Middle Tennessee State University, “Irving Babbitt on Democracy and Leadership”
Michael Harding, Montgomery College, “Against the Tarantulas: Nietzsche on Aristocracy”
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0:00 Introduction
7:51 Ethan Alexander-Davey, Panel Introduction
20:52 Matthew Cantirino on Henry Adams
37:13 Luke Sheahan on Robert Nisbet
49:35 Michael Federici on Irving Babbit
1:01:09 Michael Harding on Nietzsche's Tarantulas
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