50th Anniversary Issue

First published in the eventful year of 1968, Telos now celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. In this issue, our contributors discuss themes that have been particularly salient in the journal and that, in various ways, demonstrate how Telos has explored vitally important topics over the intervening decades.

Introduction
Russell A. Berman

Reflections from a Damaged Planet: Adorno as Accompaniment to Environmentalism in the Anthropocene
Timothy W. Luke

Critical Theory and Ecology: The Shape of Performance in the Anthropocene
Sabine Wilke

Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei’s Great Community
Ban Wang

On the Road to Damascus: The Telos Engagement with Carl Schmitt
Joseph W. Bendersky

Myth and Rationality in Politics: Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and Liberalism’s Materialist Quandary
David Pan

Liberalism and the Long 1960s
Fred Siegel

Conserve What? The Equivocations of Conservatism
Alain de Benoist

Between Alienation and Identity: Toward a Critical Theory of Refugees
Russell A. Berman

“War of Position”: Liberal Interregnum and the Emergent Ideologies
Adrian Pabst

Why Precisely Political Philosophy?
James V. Schall, S.J.

Enemies, Foes, and ISIL: The Secularization of Just War Theory
Kenneth D. Johnson

How the Concept of Infinity Links Monotheism with Skepticism
Aryeh Botwinick

Reviews

The Myth of a Palestine Exception to Free Speech
Mark Wagner

Believing in Australia: Religious Thought and Australian Intellectual History
Michael Gladwin

Dworkin and Religious Beliefs as a Right to Ethical Independence
Iván Garzón Vallejo