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Why We Play: Football Coaches & the Making of Boys Into Men

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The Silent Witness of “Metropolis”

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G.K. Chesterton’s Radical Vision for Conservatives

2019-11-21T01:15:58-06:00By Jesse Sumpter|

A Forgotten Inkling: Lord David Cecil

2019-11-21T01:20:24-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Spontaneous Disorder of Kansas-Nebraska

2019-11-22T11:38:12-06:00By Michael J. Connolly|

The Brothers Gracchi: Reformers, Not Revolutionaries

2019-11-20T10:10:05-06:00By Dylan Stevenson|

“Thomas the Rhymer Comes Home”

2019-11-19T13:01:03-06:00By David Mosley|

Sir Gawain on Maturity

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The Totalitarian Temptation in the Groves of Academe

2019-11-21T19:44:16-06:00By David Deavel|

Was Thomas Jefferson a Philosopher?

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Seeing the West as a Millstone: Sketches of Solzhenitsyn in Exile

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China is Fighting for Its Life—and Its Soul

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The Yachtsman and the Revolution

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Why American Democracy Is Worth Defending

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The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion

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Patriotism: A Necessary Sentiment

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Four Things Every American Should Know About Independence Day

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The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

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American Eden: The Rise and Fall of New World Man

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Ten Conservative Principles

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Not a Democracy

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Ten Rules for Good Living

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From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition

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American Republic

A Reading of the Gettysburg Address

2019-11-18T22:03:18-06:00By Eva Brann|

“Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln”

2019-11-18T22:16:36-06:00By Frederick Douglass|

The Totalitarian Temptation in the Groves of Academe

2019-11-21T19:44:16-06:00By David Deavel|

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Conservatism

The Brothers Gracchi: Reformers, Not Revolutionaries

2019-11-20T10:10:05-06:00By Dylan Stevenson|

Return of the Small Gods?

2019-11-16T21:29:54-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

The Fusionist Fight Over Everything

2019-11-04T06:29:37-06:00By Donald Devine|

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Culture

The Silent Witness of “Metropolis”

2019-11-22T02:36:59-06:00By Kathleen Sweeney|

The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Truth

2019-11-16T21:13:52-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

Berlioz’s “Te Deum” & Chateaubriand’s “Genius of Christianity”

2019-11-15T10:00:33-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

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The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Truth

2019-11-16T21:13:52-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

Lord David Cecil’s Philosophy of History

2019-11-18T14:53:33-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Return of the Strong Gods

2019-11-09T22:04:01-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

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Politics

The Spontaneous Disorder of Kansas-Nebraska

2019-11-22T11:38:12-06:00By Michael J. Connolly|

The Brothers Gracchi: Reformers, Not Revolutionaries

2019-11-20T10:10:05-06:00By Dylan Stevenson|

Leftism Isn’t a Religion, It’s Something Worse

2019-11-09T22:25:00-06:00By Auguste Meyrat|

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Imagination

“Thomas the Rhymer Comes Home”

2019-11-19T13:01:03-06:00By David Mosley|

Sir Gawain on Maturity

2019-11-18T22:09:40-06:00By Louis Markos|

Memory, Love, and Eternity in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”

2019-11-15T23:50:30-06:00By Paul Krause|

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Economics

Some Vagaries and Evagaries of Avarice

2019-11-06T22:25:47-06:00By David Deavel|

Is Capitalism Intrinsically Woke?

2019-10-28T00:01:51-06:00By David Deavel|

Saint John Henry Newman, Sacramental Economist

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

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Literature

“Thomas the Rhymer Comes Home”

2019-11-19T13:01:03-06:00By David Mosley|

Sir Gawain on Maturity

2019-11-18T22:09:40-06:00By Louis Markos|

Memory, Love, and Eternity in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”

2019-11-15T23:50:30-06:00By Paul Krause|

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Liberal Learning

Tools for Writing: The Keyboard

2019-11-12T21:47:27-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Where, Then, Is Time?

2019-11-09T22:30:20-06:00By Eva Brann|

Why Pop Music Is So Bad These Days

2019-11-08T00:24:55-06:00By Jon Henschen|

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