Professor Jonathan Price has been teaching legal and philosophical subjects at the University of Oxford since 2011, where he is a Fellow of St Cross College. Since 2006, he has co-organized the annual Vanenburg Meetings of the Center for European Renewal. He serves as Professor of General Jurisprudence at Memoria College and is a founding editor of The European Conservative. His writings have appeared in publications such as the National Review, First Things, The Washington Times, Volkskrant, and Die Presse. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.
Professor Jonathan Price has been teaching legal and philosophical subjects at the University of Oxford since 2011, where he is a Fellow of St Cross College. Since 2006, he has co-organized the annual Vanenburg Meetings of the Center for European Renewal. He serves as Professor of General Jurisprudence at Memoria College and is a founding editor of The European Conservative. His writings have appeared in publications such as the National Review, First Things, The Washington Times, Volkskrant, and Die Presse. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.
Professor Jonathan Price has been teaching legal and philosophical subjects at the University of Oxford since 2011, where he is a Fellow of St Cross College. Since 2006, he has co-organized the annual Vanenburg Meetings of the Center for European Renewal. He serves as Professor of General Jurisprudence at Memoria College and is a founding editor of The European Conservative. His writings have appeared in publications such as the National Review, First Things, The Washington Times, Volkskrant, and Die Presse. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.
Professor Jonathan Price has been teaching legal and philosophical subjects at the University of Oxford since 2011, where he is a Fellow of St Cross College. Since 2006, he has co-organized the annual Vanenburg Meetings of the Center for European Renewal. He serves as Professor of General Jurisprudence at Memoria College and is a founding editor of The European Conservative. His writings have appeared in publications such as the National Review, First Things, The Washington Times, Volkskrant, and Die Presse. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.
‘In our own “post-liberal” moment, Thatcher’s Arminian liberalism deserves a second look. Liberalism, rightly understood, was never meant to be the cult of the autonomous self. It was the civic translation of a theological truth: that we are created free so that we might learn to use freedom well.’
‘Whereas Augustine’s inner self pointed beyond itself to God, Rousseau’s pointed only inward. Conscience, no longer an echo of divine law, became the voice of the self. Politics, in turn, had to be remade in its image: the true will of the people was nothing less than the collective expression of each individual’s inner authenticity.’
‘True freedom is a paradox: we are most free when we accept the burdens of responsibility. A society that worships liberty without responsibility ends with neither. But a society that remembers responsibility as the guardian of liberty secures both.’
‘In an age where a phone tells better time than any Rolex, watches are thriving—not despite their obsolescence, but because of it. They are beautiful, technical, embodied objects in an abstract and disposable world. They are the final adornment, the last private ritual, the culture of time made visible—and kept close to the skin.’