Source: The Dispatch
by Nathan Beacom
“In 2016, I was studying the rise of the National Socialist movement. My project was to investigate the philosophical origins of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party — that is, the Nazi Party. That story is a complicated one, since National Socialism was not a cohesive philosophical movement in itself. It was constituted by a variety of different threads: the master morality of Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosophy of Otto Weininger, Darwinian population medicine, and a number of other influences. It was during this work that I encountered the work of Nazi jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt, famous for his legal justification of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Back in 2016, Schmitt’s work was coming again into the public eye, thanks in large part to the influential Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule.” (05/26/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/natural-law-vermeule-schmitt/