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Liberal Education at the Naval Academy

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Coronavirus: The Chickens of Globalization Are Coming Home to Roost

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Amity Shlaes on the Failure of The Great Society

2020-02-27T09:37:19-06:00By Richard J. Bishirjian|

The Speechless Image

2020-02-27T10:51:51-06:00By Maximilian Wilson|

Christendom in the West

2020-02-26T16:09:47-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Threat of Free Speech in the University

2020-02-26T15:37:21-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Brief Thoughts on Last Night’s Democratic Debate

2020-02-26T12:27:24-06:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

The Real Season of Giving

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The “Eumenides” of Aeschylus: Whole-Hearted Patriotism & Moderated Modernity

2019-09-23T23:56:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Understanding Imagination

2019-09-18T21:54:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues

2019-09-09T16:01:00-05:00By Eva Brann|

What Has Athens To Do With You?

2019-08-12T12:29:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Ecstasy of Love

2019-08-26T21:23:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Converting the Cosmos of the Mind

2019-08-19T22:06:59-05:00By Eva Brann|

Socrates on Statesmanship: The Actual Intention

2019-07-18T13:46:22-05:00By Eva Brann|

Plato’s Theory of Ideas

2019-08-05T21:25:16-05:00By Eva Brann|

Mental Imagery

2019-07-29T10:53:04-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Past-Present

2019-07-18T12:54:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

2019-07-19T14:32:07-05:00By Eva Brann|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2020-02-01T11:58:29-06:00By Eva Brann|

The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

2019-07-03T21:24:51-05:00By Eva Brann|

“Death in Venice”: The Problem of Romantic Reaction

2019-07-03T09:43:30-05:00By Eva Brann|

Telling Lies

2019-06-21T12:34:08-05:00By Eva Brann|

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American Republic

Making the World Safe for Democracy?

2020-02-22T18:59:10-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

George Washington: American Aurelius

2020-02-21T15:35:06-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

George Washington and the Patience of Power

2020-02-21T15:59:06-06:00By David Hein|

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Conservatism

Should Conservatives Embrace a Form of Socialism?

2020-02-25T01:06:01-06:00By Michael Warren Davis|

The Best Way to Fight Leftism

2020-02-23T23:30:39-06:00By Auguste Meyrat|

Henri Lefebvre and the Urban Revolution

2020-02-21T11:39:24-06:00By Nayeli Riano|

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Culture

The Speechless Image

2020-02-27T10:51:51-06:00By Maximilian Wilson|

Christendom in the West

2020-02-26T16:09:47-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Threat of Free Speech in the University

2020-02-26T15:37:21-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

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Books

Aristotle’s Revenge

2020-02-18T15:32:23-06:00By Jason Morgan|

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|

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Politics

Amity Shlaes on the Failure of The Great Society

2020-02-27T09:37:19-06:00By Richard J. Bishirjian|

Brief Thoughts on Last Night’s Democratic Debate

2020-02-26T12:27:24-06:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

Is It Bernie’s Party Now?

2020-02-25T10:18:06-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

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Imagination

“Ballade of the New History”

2020-02-22T10:44:24-06:00By Ann Farmer|

Aristotle’s Revenge

2020-02-18T15:32:23-06:00By Jason Morgan|

“Editorial in Spring”

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

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Economics

Henri Lefebvre and the Urban Revolution

2020-02-21T11:39:24-06:00By Nayeli Riano|

Freedom vs. Free Trade

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

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

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

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Literature

A Founding of Words

2020-02-28T10:21:43-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

“Ballade of the New History”

2020-02-22T10:44:24-06:00By Ann Farmer|

The War of the Gods and Demons

2020-02-22T21:48:55-06:00By Louis Markos|

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Liberal Learning

The Threat of Free Speech in the University

2020-02-26T15:37:21-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Reflections on Writing and Scholarship From an Autodidact

2020-02-21T11:31:52-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

Saint Augustine on Figurative Language in Scripture

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

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