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Sex and the Cancerous Married Girl

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Jurgen Habermas, John C. Calhoun, and Slavery

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Keep the Faith: Marillion’s “Afraid of Sunlight” at 25

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When the Pandemic Is Over, Will We Be the Same America?

2020-04-03T01:06:50-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Finding the Center

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Will the Virus Change Us?

2020-04-02T15:16:23-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

Beethoven, the Multi-Faceted Revolutionary

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Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement”

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Imagining a World Without Time

2019-10-07T14:30:34-05:00By Eva Brann|

Visions of a Botanist: Explorations & Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

2019-09-30T15:15:09-05:00By Eva Brann|

The “Eumenides” of Aeschylus: Whole-Hearted Patriotism & Moderated Modernity

2019-09-23T23:56:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Understanding Imagination

2019-09-18T21:54:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues

2019-09-09T16:01:00-05:00By Eva Brann|

What Has Athens To Do With You?

2019-08-12T12:29:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Ecstasy of Love

2019-08-26T21:23:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

Converting the Cosmos of the Mind

2019-08-19T22:06:59-05:00By Eva Brann|

Socrates on Statesmanship: The Actual Intention

2019-07-18T13:46:22-05:00By Eva Brann|

Mental Imagery

2019-07-29T10:53:04-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Past-Present

2019-07-18T12:54:06-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

2019-07-19T14:32:07-05:00By Eva Brann|

We Hold These Truths: Thoughts on the U.S. Constitution

2019-11-14T14:53:37-06:00By Mortimer Adler|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2020-02-01T11:58:29-06:00By Eva Brann|

The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

2019-07-03T21:24:51-05:00By Eva Brann|

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Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement”

2020-04-01T12:00:04-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Is the Current Crisis Really “Unprecedented”?

2020-03-30T16:07:31-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

John Marshall: A Primer

2020-03-30T10:14:33-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Conservatism

Old Rowan Oak: William Faulkner’s Conservatism

2020-03-31T17:15:52-05:00By Carl Rollyson|

Building American Institutions During a Cultural Crisis

2020-03-29T18:36:22-05:00By Donald Devine|

Cleaning Up the Immigration Mess in 4 Simple (But Not Easy) Steps

2020-03-22T17:53:18-05:00By Auguste Meyrat|

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Culture

Keep the Faith: Marillion’s “Afraid of Sunlight” at 25

2020-04-03T18:49:26-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Will the Virus Change Us?

2020-04-02T15:16:23-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

Beethoven, the Multi-Faceted Revolutionary

2020-04-02T11:13:05-05:00By John Ingram|

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Old Rowan Oak: William Faulkner’s Conservatism

2020-03-31T17:15:52-05:00By Carl Rollyson|

Building American Institutions During a Cultural Crisis

2020-03-29T18:36:22-05:00By Donald Devine|

David Weimer’s “The City as Metaphor”

2020-03-26T10:56:58-05:00By Christine Norvell|

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Politics

Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement”

2020-04-01T12:00:04-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Is the Pandemic Killing Biden’s Bid?

2020-03-31T10:35:58-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Is the Current Crisis Really “Unprecedented”?

2020-03-30T16:07:31-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

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Imagination

When the Panic Becomes Policy, Wisdom Must Step In

2020-03-29T17:45:42-05:00By John Horvat|

“The Fourth Day”

2020-04-01T13:10:45-05:00By David Russell Mosley|

Motion, Moments, & Sculptural Art: The Imagination and Time

2020-03-28T18:25:26-05:00By Jacob Terneus|

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Economics

When the Panic Becomes Policy, Wisdom Must Step In

2020-03-29T17:45:42-05:00By John Horvat|

The Journey Home: Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy

2020-03-29T17:42:55-05:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Conservative Skepticism and the Pandemic

2020-03-27T17:31:51-05:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

Old Rowan Oak: William Faulkner’s Conservatism

2020-03-31T17:15:52-05:00By Carl Rollyson|

“Life and Love in the Time of Corona”

2020-04-01T06:59:37-05:00By Joseph Mussomeli|

“The Fourth Day”

2020-04-01T13:10:45-05:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Liberal Learning

Learning Latin the Medieval Way

2020-03-21T17:27:41-05:00By Michael Champagne|

The Deep Power of Joy

2020-03-07T11:03:54-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Higher Education’s Contemporary Identity Crisis

2020-03-04T17:01:04-06:00By Nathaniel Urban and Jonathan Pidluzny|

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