(Schmittian) Political Theology today, the case of Pierre Manent.

Because Carl Schmitt was, for a while, an echt Nazi, and a virulent Antisemite, few serious scholars are inclined to call themselves ‘Schmittian’ or to cite him approvingly. It’s more usual to see the thought of Schmitt mined for arguments by Left-critics of liberalism (sometimes with a deliberate attempt at evoking frisson). Of course, Schmitt’s views …