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Telos 214

Telos 214 · Spring 2026

China Keywords II

In Telos 214, which concludes our two-part series on China keywords, we trace how China’s intellectual and theological traditions are being reinterpreted to address questions of authority, legitimacy, and global order.

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Knowledge, What Is It Good For?

Italian/American Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

by Anthony Julian Tamburri

In Knowledge, What Is It Good For?, Anthony Julian Tamburri provides a detailed and systematic examination of Italian/American leadership today. In this new collection of essays, Tamburri critiques the overall lack of knowledge about the history of Italians and their descendants in the United States, and emphasizes the need for solutions to remedy these gaps.

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Telos 212

Telos 212 · Fall 2025

Debating Postliberalism

The late twentieth century was the age of triumphant liberalism, but its triumph was brief. Across the West, populists on the far left and on the radical right have challenged the political status quo defended by center-left and center-right parties. In this issue of Telos, we explore the limitations of liberalism, the rise of antiliberal forces, and the emergence of postliberal alternatives through a number of essays and book reviews.

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Telos 211

Telos 211 · Summer 2025

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

As we survey the landscape of war today, it has become truer than ever that hot wars are a consequence of culture wars, especially as they unfold on college campuses. Universities have become central to a system that privileges expert opinion over popular rule in all areas of our society. In this issue of Telos, we consider how today’s culture wars over universities will shape our global future.

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Shards and Specters of the New World Order

Casting Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies as Critique

by Timothy W. Luke

In this wide-ranging and incisive new volume, Timothy Luke traces the trajectory of Soviet and post-Soviet geopolitics, from the ideological dynamics of revolutionary Russia through the Cold War and the "War on Terror" to, most recently, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Telos on the Russo-Ukrainian War by Telos Press CALL FOR PAPERS War and Time: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Eclipse of Peace Coedited by Michael Marder and Denys Sultanhaliiev In what appears to be a peculiar paradox of our time, the Russo-Ukrainian war—initially a profound rupture in the European political imagination—has gradually receded into the background noise of global media circulation. Saturated coverage has not yielded conceptual clarity. On… (continue reading)
Telos 214 (Spring 2026): China Keywords II by Eric Hendriks and David Pan Telos 214 (Spring 2026): China Keywords II is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. Modern China emerged through the struggle with the customs and traditions of imperial China. This struggle continues in present-day attempts to think through how earlier customs, on the one hand, remain active in Chinese… (continue reading)
Telos 213 (Winter 2025): China Keywords I by Eric Hendriks and David Pan Telos 213 (Winter 2025): China Keywords I is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. China saturates Western media and academic discourse, invoked incessantly as a force remaking the world, while the political and social-theoretical ideas through which China thinks, judges, and interprets that world remain largely unheard. Western… (continue reading)
Now Available from Telos Press: Anthony Julian Tamburri’s Knowledge, What Is It Good For? by Telos Press Now available: Knowledge, What Is It Good For? Italian/American Leadership in the Twenty-First Century, by Anthony Julian Tamburri. Order the paperback edition today in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20. Knowledge, What Is It Good For? Italian/American Leadership in the Twenty-First Century by Anthony Julian Tamburri Anthony Julian Tamburri’s Knowledge, What Is It Good For? provides… (continue reading)

Telos has always celebrated rejuvenation and renewal, and in recent years we’ve embraced that change in a variety of ways. We’ve taken Telos online and digitized our complete archive, allowing institutional subscribers from around the world to access the journal over the Internet. We’ve created a regular conference series in New York City and another more recently in Europe, which have brought together an increasing number of scholars to discuss today’s critical issues in politics and philosophy . . . (continue reading)

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