Alan S. Rome

Alan S. Rome is a teacher and writer in Sydney, Australia. He has a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Sydney.

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Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics

For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.

Alan S. Rome

8 Mar 2024 · 13 min read

Liberalism Against Utopianism

Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments.

Alan S. Rome

24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Disquiet on the Western Front

Edward Berger’s award-winning film is a deeply flawed adaptation that replaces the book’s complexity and humanity with hyperbolic surrealism and misanthropy.

Alan S. Rome

4 May 2023 · 14 min read

The Infantilization of Culture and History

We should reject an unfalsifiable frame that can make anything and everything offensive or problematic, no matter how innocuous.

Alan S. Rome

7 Sep 2022 · 9 min read

In Defence of Absolute Truth

By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.

Alan S. Rome

30 Jun 2021 · 18 min read