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A Call to the Joy of Life: Why Beethoven’s Ninth Matters to Me

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From Highest Heaven Handed Down

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America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders

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

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Understanding Imagination

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

Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues

2020-08-10T15:05:44-05:00By 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|

Plato’s Theory of Ideas

2019-08-05T21:25:16-05:00By Eva Brann|

Mental Imagery

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

The Past-Present

2020-05-13T18:32:47-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

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

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

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

The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

2020-06-10T11:03:44-05:00By Eva Brann|

“Death in Venice”: The Problem of Romantic Reaction

2019-07-03T09:43:30-05:00By Eva Brann|

Telling Lies

2019-06-21T12:34:08-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Dispassionate Study of the Passions

2020-08-31T15:04:47-05:00By Eva Brann|

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American Republic

America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders

2020-09-23T12:45:12-05:00By Robert Reilly|

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

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

American Individualism: Selfish or Selfless?

2020-09-20T15:33:36-05:00By Joe Vigliotti|

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Conservatism

Craft, Vocation, and the Decline of the West

2020-09-02T14:07:56-05:00By Matthew Pheneger|

Memory & Hope: Restoring the Teaching of American History

2020-08-31T16:56:46-05:00By Gary Houchens|

Robert Nisbet’s 11 Tenets of Conservatism

2020-08-27T17:19:55-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Culture

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

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

Will Classical Music Resist the Assaults of the Avant-Garde?

2020-09-22T11:31:06-05:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

The Problem With Architectural “Genius”

2020-09-10T13:34:31-05:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

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America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders

2020-09-23T12:45:12-05:00By Robert Reilly|

Understanding William Faulkner

2020-09-25T16:33:48-05:00By Mark Royden Winchell|

The Demolition of the Western Mind

2020-09-12T11:55:30-05:00By Louis Markos|

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Politics

Will Justice Barrett Seal a Conservative Majority on the High Court?

2020-09-29T16:15:42-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders

2020-09-23T12:45:12-05:00By Robert Reilly|

The SCOTUS Pick: All the Chips Are on the Table Now

2020-09-25T11:35:32-05:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

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Imagination

Going to Purgatory With J.R.R. Tolkien

2020-09-03T15:27:03-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

“Der Erlkönig” (The Elf King)

2020-08-27T17:08:26-05:00By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|

The Forgotten “Freddy the Pig”

2020-08-07T16:07:51-05:00By Susannah Pearce|

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Economics

Calvin Coolidge and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

2020-09-17T00:13:14-05:00By Mark Malvasi|

Fusionism Is Dead, Long Live Conservatism!

2020-09-09T16:10:56-05:00By Joey Barretta|

Another Lockdown? For the Sake of Our Health, No!

2020-08-18T17:02:55-05:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

Tolkien’s “The Return of the Shadow,” 1937-1939

2020-09-26T13:43:25-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Tolkien Begins the Sequel to “The Hobbit”

2020-09-25T12:23:31-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Understanding William Faulkner

2020-09-25T16:33:48-05:00By Mark Royden Winchell|

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Liberal Learning

Teach for America’s Warriors

2020-09-23T14:40:53-05:00By Francis Lee|

Dorothy Sayers on Classical Education

2020-09-17T09:43:09-05:00By Raymond Dokupil|

Memory & Hope: Restoring the Teaching of American History

2020-08-31T16:56:46-05:00By Gary Houchens|

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