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

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The Crisis of Liberalism

By Chuck Chalberg|

Robert Nisbet’s Mentor: Frederick Teggart

2021-01-14T15:58:26-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Furies: The Myopia of the Present Moment

2021-01-15T16:52:37-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump

2021-01-15T08:44:19-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Ways to Fight Big Tech

2021-01-15T10:52:54-06:00By David Deavel|

Divorcing John Dewey

2021-01-14T11:00:25-06:00By Michael Pearce|

The Fine Art of the Essay

2021-01-13T15:01:11-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

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Reflections on Tocqueville: The Pervasiveness of Equality

2020-08-31T14:44:00-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Life After Death With the Poets

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

Shakespeare’s Farewell

2020-08-10T15:44:15-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Is Natural Law Sufficient to Defend the Founding?

2020-07-26T00:55:31-05:00By Donald Devine|

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|

Joseph Conrad’s Imagination

2020-07-16T17:04:49-05:00By Cicero Bruce|

“The People”: Sheep and Feathers

2020-07-15T12:29:01-05:00By Peter Kwasniewski|

The Sweet Value of Literature

2020-07-12T15:33:32-05:00By Christine Norvell|

The Imaginative Conservative: 10 Years of Preserving & Advancing

2020-07-09T15:08:59-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A Decade of Hope-Filled Conservatism

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

Blaming Adam

2020-07-04T01:23:42-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

The Goods of Friendship

2020-07-01T11:35:17-05:00By Kelly Connelly|

The Roots and Dangers of Pride and Envy

2020-06-29T13:22:54-05:00By Louis Markos|

An Ennobling Innocence: The Founding of Socrates’ Republic

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

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American Republic

Institutionalized Obedience: Americans & the Lockdowns

2021-01-12T10:56:12-06:00By Habi Zhang|

Not All Enemies Are Equal

2021-01-09T02:06:33-06:00By David Deavel|

Where Are We Going?

2020-12-30T14:54:05-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

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Conservatism

Russell Kirk’s Beauty and Civilization

2020-12-31T22:59:39-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Conservative Credo

2020-12-29T21:33:43-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

Conservatism: Born Against Simplicity

2020-12-29T15:12:29-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Culture

In Praise of Noble Atheism

2021-01-12T16:00:50-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

“Sgt. MacKenzie”

2021-01-13T20:13:32-06:00By Joseph Kilna MacKenzie|

Liberty, Religion, & Woke Progressivism

2021-01-10T17:17:54-06:00By Casey Chalk|

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Books

The Fine Art of the Essay

2021-01-13T15:01:11-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

Garrison Keillor’s “That Time of Year”

2021-01-07T15:56:01-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

The Best Book of 2020

2021-01-08T11:29:00-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Politics

Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump

2021-01-15T08:44:19-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Divorcing John Dewey

2021-01-14T11:00:25-06:00By Michael Pearce|

“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”: When Yesterday Is Cancelled

2021-01-12T01:00:11-06:00By Joseph Mussomeli|

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Imagination

“Modern Dreams: Forgotten Dreams”

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

Who Now Remembers Andrew Lang?

2020-11-26T09:07:56-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Prayer, Beauty, and Civilization

2020-11-21T10:16:29-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

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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?

2020-10-22T23:01:03-05:00By John Horvat|

Properly Political Scientists: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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Literature

“Modern Dreams: Endless Dreams”

2021-01-05T14:58:24-06:00By David Gosselin|

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Belloc & Eliot on Twelfth Night & Epiphany

2021-01-05T12:21:37-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

“Lammas”

2020-12-10T12:52:09-06:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Liberal Learning

Furies: The Myopia of the Present Moment

2021-01-15T16:52:37-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Divorcing John Dewey

2021-01-14T11:00:25-06:00By Michael Pearce|

The Fine Art of the Essay

2021-01-13T15:01:11-06:00By Michael De Sapio|

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