Michael Oakeshott passed away on this day in 1990, a year and one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Three decades later, the British political philosopher’s influence has spread worldwide.

Philosophers, held Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990), are of two kinds: didactic and contemplative. The former tend to have minds that gravitate to the formation of bold and graspable ideas ...

But please do bear with me. I really think we're onto something. What I want to do today is to discuss Michael Oakeshott and explore how he can speak to schools and educators. But before we enter ...

By Jesse Norman This modest man: Oakeshott, pictured at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1933. Photo: Getty Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks (1922-86) Edited by Luke O’Sullivan Imprint Academic, ...

Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was one of the great philosophers of 20th century England. Yet his name is seldom known in Italy and his influence in Italian circles was modest. This section of ‘Il ...

It is good to see the British conservative philosopher, Michael Oakeshott, featuring in the American Conservative, because, as Kenneth McIntyre explains, mainstream American conservatives don’t ...

SIR – Your review of Edmund Fawcett’s “Liberalism” found it “odd” that the book places Michael Oakeshott, a British Conservative, “in the same tent” as Jean-Paul Sartre ...

Revisiting the philosopher through his personal notebooks. Neoconservatives like Irving Kristol were cool to Oakeshott’s conservative disposition, arguing that it was too European, not American, and ...

Kenneth McIntyre has provoked considerable discussion with his review of Gene Callahan’s Oakeshott on Rome and America. And rightly so: Oakeshott’s critique… The American Ideas Institute ...

Excerpt from Christianity Today’s review: Hart then turns to traditionalist conservatives (Russell Kirk, Roger Scruton, Michael Oakeshott, Mark Henrie, Patrick Deneen) for an alternative to the ...