Daniel Larison

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Daniel Larison is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Chicago, where he recently completed his dissertation on the sixth ecumenical council and the monothelete controversy. A convert to Orthodox Christianity since 2003, he serves as a reader at a local Russian Orthodox parish in the Chicago area. He is contributing editor at The American Conservative and writes a column for The Week online. His work has also appeared in The Dallas Morning News, The New Pantagruel and at Takimag.com. He writes on the blog Eunomia.

Recent Essays

Red Tories

Daniel Larison - May 10, 2010

In the American context, one could very easily call Red Tories Jeffersonians, and this is where we see the predicament for Red Toryism in the United States.

Localism And Cosmopolites

Daniel Larison - May 12, 2009

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Remarking on Jeremy Beer's article on meritocracy, Patrick Deneen concludes with this grim, but correct, observation: This, in a microcosm, is a central paradox...

No Going Back…So Where Are We Going?

Daniel Larison - April 4, 2009

The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision. Politics is not a time machine and...

Localism vs. Globalism

Daniel Larison - March 23, 2009

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Mark Thompson has penned a challenging broadside against skeptics of free trade, including me, and he makes a number of arguments that deserve...

Patrimony And Autonomy

Daniel Larison - March 5, 2009

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I appreciated Professor Deneen's discussion of the problem of free-riding, and I agree that ours is a precarious position, but I would suggest...

Prosperity, Myth and Liberty

Daniel Larison - March 4, 2009

E.D. Kain identifies a paradox in modern American conservatism that will be familiar to students of George Grant. Forty years ago, Grant wrote...

Communication

Daniel Larison - March 3, 2009

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Via Derbyshire, this Terry Teachout column makes an important observation that relates back to Derbyshire's criticism of the influence of talk radio and...

Freedom Among Themselves

Daniel Larison - March 2, 2009

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. E.D. Kain had a fine quote from Wendell Berry that provides a good definition of community to start any discussion of place and limits: A...