Carl Schmitt, a Third Reich jurist and philosopher, saw politics as a life-and-death battle against enemies and democracy as dispensable. At this moment of deep political division, bold ideas to ...

Carl Schmitt was a German legal philosopher and political theorist, a critic of democracy and liberalism, and a rabid antisemite who served as the chief legal adviser to the Nazis and the Third Reich.

A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt. Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie/Source: Ullstein Bild, via Getty Images Supported by ...