Episode 8

Ep 8 Kenneth McIntyre on Herbert Butterfield and History

Published on: 8th April, 2023

Kenneth McIntyre joins us to talk about his essay on Herbert Butterfield in Chronicles’ Remembering the Right series. The author of a book on Butterfield, McIntyre discusses Butterfield’s Whig Interpretation of History, his views on international relations, and how his Augustinian idea of mankind informed his political theory.

Check out some of Ken’s books:

Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics

Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association

Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism

Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited

And we also mentioned the intellectual biography of Butterfield written by CT McIntire.

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CJay Engel

CJay has written for Chronicles Magazine and most recently contributed an essay to The Paleoconservative Anthology, edited by Paul Gottfried.
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Ed Welsch

Edward Welsch is the executive editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He was previously a journalist covering the financial markets and energy industry for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News from bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, and Calgary, and was also the editor of financial newsletters. He is an undergraduate of St. Olaf College and a student of its Great Books program, and holds a master’s degree in Journalism and Communications from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.