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The Music of American Composer Charles Martin Loeffler

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The Sweet Value of Literature

By Christine Norvell|

“The Cremation of Sam McGee”

2020-07-10T00:52:53-05:00By Robert W. Service|

On Saint Benedict

2020-07-10T23:38:38-05:00By Benedict XVI|

How One Monk Began Rebuilding the West

2020-07-11T12:28:06-05:00By R. Jared Staudt|

The Imaginative Conservative: 10 Years of Preserving & Advancing

2020-07-09T15:08:59-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A Decade of Hope-Filled Conservatism

2020-07-10T10:59:26-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

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“The Pioneers”: Heroic Settlers & American Ideal

2020-07-10T09:43:31-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

The Literary Saint, John Henry Newman

2020-06-01T14:00:48-05:00By Elayne Allen|

The Joy of the Liberal Arts in a Pandemic World

2020-05-04T17:39:38-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

How Can We Form a More Perfect Union in Our Fractious Age?

2020-04-14T14:42:54-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

Debating the Benedict Option

2019-11-01T22:22:30-05:00By Thomas Ascik|

John Henry Newman: Conscience of the Age

2019-11-01T02:02:58-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Saint John Henry Newman, Sacramental Economist

2019-11-08T15:26:00-06:00By David Deavel|

Socrates and Free Government

2019-07-10T15:49:10-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

The Fusionist Mind of Stephen Tonsor

2019-05-28T23:55:18-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

The Domestic Monastery: The Rule of Saint Benedict

2019-05-25T22:40:59-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

A Meditation on the Mind and Task of the Christian Humanist

2019-07-11T09:19:03-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

Decadence and Its Critics

2019-05-30T10:30:31-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

Opting for Saint Benedict in an Ordinary Parish

2019-01-27T15:26:18-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

With Hearts Expanded

2020-07-10T22:07:17-05:00By Benedict of Nursia|

Rebuilding Western Civilization: A Tale of Two Monasteries

2019-07-18T12:11:27-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

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American Republic

How Successful Were the Articles of Confederation?

2020-07-08T17:09:38-05:00By Joerg Knipprath|

A Declaration of Interdependence: Rereading the American Declaration of 1776

2020-07-08T10:46:09-05:00By Jonathan English|

How Ray Bradbury Predicted 2020

2020-07-06T16:33:02-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Conservatism

Banishing the Party of Memory?

2020-07-02T15:43:06-05:00By Paul Krause|

Secular Iconoclasm and the Peasants’ Indignation

2020-06-30T18:19:29-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

Patrick Deneen and the Conservative Understanding of Time

2020-06-18T15:18:39-05:00By Matthew McManus|

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Culture

How One Monk Began Rebuilding the West

2020-07-11T12:28:06-05:00By R. Jared Staudt|

“This Is Your Sword”

2020-07-11T16:25:08-05:00By Bruce Springsteen|

Truth, or Cultural Imperialism?

2020-07-09T14:56:57-05:00By Michael Kurek|

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Books

“The Pioneers”: Heroic Settlers & American Ideal

2020-07-10T09:43:31-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

“The Hour of Fate”: Theodore Roosevelt & American Capitalism

2020-07-05T13:18:12-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

The Roots and Dangers of Pride and Envy

2020-06-29T13:22:54-05:00By Louis Markos|

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Politics

A Culture War Battle President Trump Can Win

2020-07-07T10:29:13-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

“The Hour of Fate”: Theodore Roosevelt & American Capitalism

2020-07-05T13:18:12-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

A Good Woman is Hard to Find: The “Racism” of Flannery O’Connor

2020-07-05T13:00:59-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Imagination

“Hungary”

2020-06-28T19:53:00-05:00By Jay Calhoun|

Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”

2020-06-24T09:57:31-05:00By Matthew Ehret|

“The Sixth Day”

2020-06-10T11:07:28-05:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Economics

Why Adam Smith’s Critique of Mercantilism Matters Today

2020-07-01T11:45:19-05:00By Drew Maglio|

Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?

2020-06-27T09:28:35-05:00By Levi Russell|

The Christian Moral Economy

2020-06-26T11:15:46-05:00By Cicero Bruce|

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Literature

“The Cremation of Sam McGee”

2020-07-10T00:52:53-05:00By Robert W. Service|

How Ray Bradbury Predicted 2020

2020-07-06T16:33:02-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A Good Woman is Hard to Find: The “Racism” of Flannery O’Connor

2020-07-05T13:00:59-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Liberal Learning

The Catholic School in the Pluralist Polis

2020-06-20T16:52:04-05:00By Thaddeus Kozinski|

Poetry as a Form of Life

2020-06-19T14:19:42-05:00By Mark Signorelli|

An Ennobling Innocence: The Founding of Socrates’ Republic

2020-06-24T00:19:00-05:00By David Lawrence Levine|

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