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Time and America’s Pastime: Baseball With My Dad

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The Priest as Warrior

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The Power of Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites”

2019-06-15T11:36:20-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

Parallel & Convergent Paths: Seeing Myself in Another’s Conversion

2019-06-14T23:28:20-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Henry Adams & Modernity: A Philosophy of History for Our Times

2019-06-14T13:30:31-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

Who Was Philip Ludwell III?

2019-06-13T21:55:21-05:00By Associates of Colonel Philip Ludwell III|

America’s Uneven Legacy of Religious Freedom

2019-06-12T23:46:56-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

John Keats’ “Great Odes” & the Sublime

2019-06-13T11:29:19-05:00By Daniel Leach|

What Is Beauty and Why Do We Need It?

2019-06-12T14:33:20-05:00By John-Mark Miravalle|

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Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2019-06-06T20:34:45-05:00By Eva Brann|

Ten Conservative Principles

2019-06-06T18:45:02-05:00By Russell Kirk|

Fit for the World

2019-06-06T02:33:40-05:00By Christopher Nelson|

“Little Places” and the Recovery of Civilization

2019-06-15T09:52:00-05:00By Eva Brann|

A Manifesto for Liberal Education

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Do You Know What an Odyssey Is?

2019-06-06T02:47:47-05:00By Eva Brann|

Thomas Jefferson, Conservative

2019-06-06T02:22:08-05:00By Clyde Wilson|

Winged Words: Reading & Discussing Great Books

2019-06-06T02:31:45-05:00By Peter Kalkavage|

Finding the Real John Adams

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Imagination

Ovid on Finding Your Voice

2019-06-11T23:43:16-05:00By Louis Markos|

Flying Elephants and the Margins of Imagination

2019-06-10T23:24:58-05:00By Sean Fitzpatrick|

Chasing Lions: Don Quixote in Pursuit of the Beautiful

2019-06-11T14:21:58-05:00By Jacob Terneus|

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Conservatism

Time and America’s Pastime: Baseball With My Dad

2019-06-15T21:07:43-05:00By Jessica Keating|

Russell Kirk’s Forgotten “Intelligent Citizen’s Guide to Conservatism”

2019-06-14T14:10:59-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Fusionist Mind of Stephen Tonsor

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

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Culture

The Power of Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites”

2019-06-15T11:36:20-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

Parallel & Convergent Paths: Seeing Myself in Another’s Conversion

2019-06-14T23:28:20-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

America’s Uneven Legacy of Religious Freedom

2019-06-12T23:46:56-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Books

Parallel & Convergent Paths: Seeing Myself in Another’s Conversion

2019-06-14T23:28:20-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Russell Kirk’s Forgotten “Intelligent Citizen’s Guide to Conservatism”

2019-06-14T14:10:59-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Beauty in the Face of Indifference

2019-06-10T09:46:46-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Politics

Omaha Beach: America’s Finest Hour

2019-06-05T22:30:35-05:00By Regis Martin|

When Republicans Were Progressive

2019-05-30T15:31:54-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

The Democracy of the Unborn

2019-05-24T12:40:49-05:00By Steven Kessler|

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American Republic

America’s Uneven Legacy of Religious Freedom

2019-06-12T23:46:56-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Cicero: No Slave of Plato

2019-06-07T09:36:17-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

True Law is Right Reason in Agreement With Nature

2019-06-06T10:13:21-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Economics

Was G.K. Chesterton a Socialist?

2019-05-26T16:01:44-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

John Randolph of Roanoke & the Formation of a Southern Conservatism

2019-05-23T22:19:37-05:00By John Devanny|

James Burnham’s & Daniel Bell’s Critiques of Globalization & Liberalism

2019-05-02T20:50:26-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

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Literature

John Keats’ “Great Odes” & the Sublime

2019-06-13T11:29:19-05:00By Daniel Leach|

Big Brother’s Birthday: Orwell’s “1984” at 70

2019-06-14T12:34:02-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Horace on Decorum

2019-06-04T22:47:12-05:00By Louis Markos|

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Liberal Learning

Henry Adams & Modernity: A Philosophy of History for Our Times

2019-06-14T13:30:31-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

Ovid on Finding Your Voice

2019-06-11T23:43:16-05:00By Louis Markos|

The Dispassionate Study of the Passions

2019-06-14T17:02:37-05:00By Eva Brann|

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