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Cursive and the Brave New World

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The Beauty of Christian “Folly”

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The American College of the Building Arts

2021-05-07T17:25:47-05:00By A. Wade Razzi|

Time to Brainwash Our Children?

2021-04-30T10:58:47-05:00By Philip Martin|

Evelyn Waugh on Style & Substance in Writing

2021-05-06T16:07:32-05:00By David Deavel|

The Top Ten Greatest Violin Concertos

2021-05-06T16:06:39-05:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

The Case for the Liberal Arts: Stronger Than Ever?

2021-05-05T16:49:37-05:00By Wilfred McClay|

10 Ancient Books That Influenced Stoicism

2021-05-05T18:20:25-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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How We Split the World Apart: The Separation of Faith & Philosophy

2021-03-23T16:27:53-05:00By Eva Brann|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2021-01-21T12:00:41-06:00By Eva Brann|

Cancelling the Classics? The Woke Crowd Comes for Homer’s “Odyssey”

2021-01-16T16:44:18-06:00By Matthew Pheneger|

Reflections on American Order

2021-01-07T16:43:42-06:00By Russell Kirk|

Conservative Credo

2021-02-26T09:15:16-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

The Democratic Impulse of the Scholars in Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil”

2020-11-25T11:25:50-06:00By Gordon Arnold|

Christian Platonism in Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy”

2020-10-24T15:24:21-05:00By Jordan Bissell|

The “Eumenides”: Patriotism & Moderated Modernity

2020-10-06T22:17:07-05:00By Eva Brann|

Less Than Nothing: The World Without Mystery

2021-03-29T13:14:56-05:00By Jack Gist|

Life After Death With the Poets

2020-08-14T12:21:34-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Conserving in A.D. 2020 or 499 B.C.

2020-07-21T17:58:07-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Beyond Good and Nietzsche

2020-07-18T15:44:41-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

A Decade of Hope-Filled Conservatism

2020-12-23T00:12:05-06:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

“The Pioneers”: Heroic Settlers & American Ideal

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

The Heroism of Civilization

2020-07-04T01:22:27-05:00By David Deavel|

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American Republic

George Washington: Indispensable Man

2021-04-29T16:00:18-05:00By Forrest McDonald|

Was the Postwar U.S. International Order Truly Liberal?

2021-04-26T19:52:25-05:00By Andrew Latham|

A New Homestead Act

2021-04-12T14:24:25-05:00By Seth Carey|

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Conservatism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Romantic Conservative

2021-04-20T14:05:04-05:00By Loren Brown|

What Remains of Conservatism?

2021-04-04T11:33:41-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Artistic Entrepreneurship: The Way Forward in a New Digital Era

2021-03-24T19:12:06-05:00By Kay Clarity|

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Culture

Time to Brainwash Our Children?

2021-04-30T10:58:47-05:00By Philip Martin|

The Top Ten Greatest Violin Concertos

2021-05-06T16:06:39-05:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

Jeffrey Epstein & the Hideous Strength of Transhumanism

2021-05-03T16:10:23-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Books

Was the Postwar U.S. International Order Truly Liberal?

2021-04-26T19:52:25-05:00By Andrew Latham|

An Ode to Great Books and a Beautiful Library

2021-04-24T17:30:14-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

10 C.S. Lewis Books Every Imaginative Conservative Should Read

2021-04-19T16:19:36-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Politics

Prohibition, Democracy, and the State

2021-05-04T16:30:38-05:00By Mark Malvasi|

Biden Bets the Farm to ‘Change the World’

2021-05-02T15:55:19-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Machiavelli: The Prince of Darkness?

2021-05-02T16:00:52-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Imagination

The Gentle Genius of Thomas Howard

2021-01-29T12:01:09-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2021-01-21T12:00:41-06:00By Eva Brann|

“The Speech”: Maintaining Sanity in an Insane World

2021-01-08T09:36:34-06:00By Forrest McDonald|

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Economics

A New Homestead Act

2021-04-12T14:24:25-05:00By Seth Carey|

Craftsmanship Can Save the World: The American College of Building Arts

2021-04-27T21:39:15-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Building Back Better, You Say? It’s All About Scale

2021-03-19T11:13:00-05:00By James Howard Kunstler|

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Literature

“After Rereading Sophocles’ ‘Antigone'”

2021-04-16T10:11:25-05:00By Thomas Banks|

Lessons That Great Poems Teach

2021-04-29T07:30:21-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Monster and the Christians

2021-04-28T12:54:56-05:00By David Deavel|

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Liberal Learning

The American College of the Building Arts

2021-05-07T17:25:47-05:00By A. Wade Razzi|

Evelyn Waugh on Style & Substance in Writing

2021-05-06T16:07:32-05:00By David Deavel|

The Case for the Liberal Arts: Stronger Than Ever?

2021-05-05T16:49:37-05:00By Wilfred McClay|

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