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TPPI promotes the scholarly examination of topics in philosophy, politics, history, and culture.

The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute is a non-profit organization focused on developing new ideas for addressing the challenges of modernity worldwide through the resources of particular communities and traditions. Centered around a unique international group of scholars and practitioners, the Institute combines critical analyses of issues of modernity with a sense for alternative approaches in order to create innovative policy ideas. At the same time, the focus on communities and traditions grounds this vision in terms of local perspectives and decision-making.

10/12/2026

New in Telos Insights: Tim Rosenberger reads Columbus as a Girardian scapegoat: the crossing was inevitable, and the Eucharist he carried exposed the logic of sacrifice. Vilifying him absolves society of responsibility and obscures his courage and ambition.

by Tim Rosenberger

10/08/2026

New in Telos Insights: Thomas Fröhlich traces China’s evolving view of the West, from spatial other with little intrinsic connection to China, to model of progress, to historical equal and rival [in Chinese, with English summary].

by Thomas Fröhlich (范登明)

10/02/2026

New in Telos Insights: Lukas Sarvari explains why Iran’s Islamic Republic is structurally incapable of political normalization due to its revolutionary ideology, arguing that lasting sovereignty requires regime change and popular self-determination by Iranians.

by Lukas Sarvari

09/27/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference in New York. We invite paper proposals on the topic "Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI." Complete details at our website.

The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference in New York

09/16/2026

New in Telos Insights: Sun Feiyu on the sociologist Wu Wenzao, who pioneered the Sinicization of sociology by training scholars, engaging Western theory, and grounding research in Chinese society and fieldwork [in Chinese, with English summary].

by Sun Feiyu (孙飞宇)

09/11/2026

New in Telos Insights: Sabine Beppler-Spahl argues that left populism has abandoned national sovereignty for transnational causes, alienating domestic voters while converging with anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

by Sabine Beppler-Spahl

09/04/2026

New in Telos Insights: With the Jason Arday scandal and Lindsay Clancy trial in view, Tim Rosenberger argues that guilt has been turned into ritual sacrifice, absolved for allies, weaponized against enemies, while the institutions that enabled the harm evade accountability.

by Tim Rosenberger

09/04/2026

Paper submissions are invited for a special issue of Telos on Karl Wittfogel's account of hydraulic societies and how it might illuminate emerging patterns of governance, state–society relations, and world order.

09/01/2026

New in Telos Insights: Michael S. Kochin argues that American universities lost their national purpose after the Cold War, drifting into globalized "excellence" and postcolonial ideology, and calls for reforms that reorient them toward national service.

by Michael S. Kochin

08/27/2026

New in Telos Insights: Karthick Ram Manoharan on how India's Maoist insurgency and communist parties are collapsing, as anti-BJP protests show Ambedkar and the Constitution replacing Marxism as leftist symbols.

by Karthick Ram Manoharan

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