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Robert Nisbet’s “The Social Group in French Thought”

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Tocqueville and Totalitarian Democracy in America

Airbrushing Out the Naughty Bits: Censoring the Great Books

2021-02-23T17:03:44-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Lost Meaning of Genealogy

2021-02-22T12:56:31-06:00By Nathaniel Urban|

“Shut the Door on the World”

2021-02-23T11:04:52-06:00By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley|

Parties and Presidential Selection

2021-02-23T10:52:46-06:00By Zachary Rogers|

Robert Nisbet’s Chance Dissertation

2021-02-22T14:06:47-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

“Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl”

2021-02-22T15:59:26-06:00By John Greenleaf Whittier|

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Pietas and Fallen Cities: America and Vergil’s “Aeneid”

2020-09-28T00:48:46-05:00By Justin Shaw|

Augustine’s “City of God”: The First Culture War

2020-08-15T17:14:32-05:00By Paul Krause|

Roman Death Masks and the Role of Memory

2020-07-31T17:06:50-05:00By Emily Kleinhenz|

An Ennobling Innocence: The Founding of Socrates’ Republic

2020-07-19T15:15:25-05:00By David Lawrence Levine|

Freedom, Responsibility, and the Liberal Arts

2020-06-11T12:46:33-05:00By Stringfellow Barr|

By Razor or Fire: Should the Church “Baptize” Stoicism?

2020-06-06T19:30:06-05:00By Jackson Hern|

Castalia and St. John’s College

2020-06-03T09:22:02-05:00By Eva Brann|

A Unique Liberal Learning Opportunity

2020-10-13T00:36:02-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

Liberal Education and the Free Mind

2020-05-13T15:36:19-05:00By Scott Buchanan|

Homer’s “Odyssey” and What It Means to Be Human

2020-05-22T00:16:16-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

The Theology of Socratic Piety

2020-03-18T18:44:00-05:00By Nalin Ranasinghe|

Mathematics and Liberal Education

2020-03-03T13:23:08-06:00By Arthur Hippler|

Tales Salutary to the Soul

2020-03-03T11:27:14-06:00By Eva Brann|

The War of the Gods and Demons

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

A Conversation With Art Historian Liz Lev

2020-02-22T19:20:01-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

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American Republic

Parties and Presidential Selection

2021-02-23T10:52:46-06:00By Zachary Rogers|

George Washington and the “Gift of Silence”

2021-02-20T21:04:00-06:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

A Quiet Killing

2021-02-19T20:06:39-06:00By Joseph Mussomeli|

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Conservatism

Rod Dreher and The Nostalgia Option

2021-01-23T19:01:56-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

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

The Crisis of Liberalism

2021-01-17T01:04:36-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

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Culture

“Madame Medusa”

2021-02-22T10:31:26-06:00By L.H. Mack|

My Adventures Colonizing the World With Music

2021-02-18T14:40:51-06:00By Michael Kurek|

Art and Grace: St. Fra Angelico

2021-02-15T13:03:08-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

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Books

Bernard Bailyn at Last: Illuminating History

2021-02-10T10:52:58-06:00By Jacob Bruggeman|

Is Christianity a Story?

2021-02-01T20:41:07-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

A Civilizational Foreign Policy

2021-01-28T23:43:57-06:00By Samuel Gregg|

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Politics

Parties and Presidential Selection

2021-02-23T10:52:46-06:00By Zachary Rogers|

A Quiet Killing

2021-02-19T20:06:39-06:00By Joseph Mussomeli|

He Told You So: Joe Biden’s Radical Vision for America

2021-02-18T18:33:52-06:00By Thomas Ascik|

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Imagination

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|

“Modern Dreams: Forgotten Dreams”

2020-12-04T15:47:21-06:00By David Gosselin|

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Economics

“Action vs. Contemplation”: Busy Americans & Lockdowns

2020-12-11T16:31:35-06:00By Jason Morgan|

Is This the End of Our “Cruise-Ship Economy”?

2021-01-28T10:11:56-06:00By John Horvat|

Properly Political Scientists: The Great Barrington Declaration

2020-10-13T12:57:24-05:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

“Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl”

2021-02-22T15:59:26-06:00By John Greenleaf Whittier|

“Madame Medusa”

2021-02-22T10:31:26-06:00By L.H. Mack|

America’s First Poet, Anne Bradstreet: A Progressive Conservative

2021-02-19T10:02:06-06:00By Jeremy W. Johnston|

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Liberal Learning

San Francisco’s Assault on History

2021-02-14T20:10:26-06:00By Allan C. Brownfeld|

Why Literature Matters

2021-02-05T12:12:02-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Shakespeare and “Hateful Rhetoric”

2021-01-29T15:11:50-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

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