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Virginia’s New Secession Crisis

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G.K. Chesterton’s Socialist Friend: Robert Blatchford

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Aristotle’s Revenge

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The Original Perversity in the Socialist Heart

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If Duterte Wants Us Out of the Philippines, Let’s Go

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The Well-Read Voter

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“They Live Forever in the American Constellation”: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words

2020-02-07T16:13:15-06:00By David Deavel|

“A Glimpse of the Majesty of God’s Creation”: Remarks at the 2020 March For Life

2020-01-25T00:54:44-06:00By Donald J. Trump|

Proclamation on National Sanctity of Human Life Day

2020-01-24T12:29:17-06:00By Donald J. Trump|

Impeachment, the End of an Era, and the Conservative Challenge

2020-01-14T14:46:46-06:00By Donald Devine|

Ten Rules for Good Living

2019-12-31T22:02:49-06:00By Thomas Jefferson|

A Jeffersonian Model of Citizenship

2019-12-18T16:59:48-06:00By Ralph Ketcham|

A Heart Devoted to the Welfare of Our Country

2020-02-15T15:13:13-06:00By John Quincy Adams|

Was Thomas Jefferson a Philosopher?

2019-10-25T10:03:24-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Divine Plan: How John Paul II & Ronald Reagan Promoted Peace

2019-09-10T23:50:57-05:00By Joseph Serwach|

Conservatism and Our Constitutional Inheritance

2020-01-29T10:09:58-06:00By Greg Weiner|

Publius on the Relation of the Federal Government to the States

2019-11-12T15:11:10-06:00By Will Morrisey|

“We Choose to Go to the Moon”: Rice University Speech

2019-11-14T13:17:28-06:00By John F. Kennedy|

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The Well-Read Voter

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Freedom vs. Free Trade

2020-02-10T15:41:27-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

“They Live Forever in the American Constellation”: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

2020-02-14T23:06:07-06:00By Daniel Webster|

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Conservatism

The Original Perversity in the Socialist Heart

2020-02-19T00:05:53-06:00By Steven Kessler|

The Hounds in Full Cry: Roger Scruton’s Conservatism

2020-02-17T16:49:05-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

T.E. Hulme on the Religious Attitude

2020-02-09T02:16:32-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Culture

Hail to the Chief! Music for American Presidents

2020-02-17T12:59:09-06:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

The Rise of Anglo-Catholicism

2020-02-15T22:03:03-06:00By Charles Coulombe|

On the Fear of Religion

2020-02-15T11:44:04-06:00By Matt Nelson|

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The Land, War, and Knowing Oneself: Willa Cather’s “One of Ours”

2020-02-13T10:38:34-06:00By Christine Norvell|

The Ghost of Dickens Past

2020-02-06T22:02:50-06:00By Cicero Bruce|

Britain’s Not-So-Evil Empire

2020-02-05T14:06:18-06:00By Daniel M. Bring|

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Politics

The Original Perversity in the Socialist Heart

2020-02-19T00:05:53-06:00By Steven Kessler|

If Duterte Wants Us Out of the Philippines, Let’s Go

2020-02-17T23:41:51-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

The Hounds in Full Cry: Roger Scruton’s Conservatism

2020-02-17T16:49:05-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Imagination

“Editorial in Spring”

2020-02-15T11:44:55-06:00By Vito Mussomeli|

Metamorphosis by Love

2020-02-13T19:41:21-06:00By Paul Krause|

The Land, War, and Knowing Oneself: Willa Cather’s “One of Ours”

2020-02-13T10:38:34-06:00By Christine Norvell|

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Economics

We’re From the Government—and We’re Here to Help the Workers!

2020-01-23T12:01:53-06:00By David Deavel|

A Balanced Position on Tariffs and Protectionism

2020-01-05T21:38:41-06:00By John Horvat|

Leisure the Basis of Labor

2019-12-25T23:08:57-06:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

“To His Coy Mistress”

2020-02-13T23:17:34-06:00By Andrew Marvell|

Metamorphosis by Love

2020-02-13T19:41:21-06:00By Paul Krause|

Reflections on Writing and Scholarship From an Autodidact

2020-02-16T09:24:00-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Liberal Learning

Saint Augustine on Figurative Language in Scripture

2020-02-09T02:20:00-06:00By Christine Norvell|

On Teaching, Writing, and Other Discontents

2020-02-04T17:16:48-06:00By Mark Malvasi|

Thinking Progressively by Acting Conservatively

2020-02-03T16:45:37-06:00By David Deavel|

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