A review of The Politics of Moral Capital by John Kane.
About the Author
Daniel J. Mahoney teaches political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Among other works, he is the author of The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron (1992), De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy (1996), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (2001).
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