In “The Challenge of Carl Schmitt,” a volume of essays by various authors published in 1999, the political theorist Chantal Mouffe proposed that it was possible to learn from his “insights ...

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.

In some ways, Schmitt’s thinking seems in sync with sophisticated thought in our own times. He despised the cult of Big Tech, or what he called “the torpid religion of technicity.” ...

This article offers a feminist critique of Carl Schmitt, with a particular focus on Political Theology and The Concept of the Political. It addresses a pathos of masculinity that pervades Schmitt’s ...

Correction: Iran’s oil and Carl Schmitt Iran produces about 3.3mn barrels of oil a day, or about 3 per cent of the global total, not around 1.7mn as wrongly stated in an article on June 14.