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Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

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Is Patriotic Education a Good Idea?

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Remembering Who We Are: The Conservative’s New Fight

2020-11-25T09:33:04-06:00By Kay Clarity|

My Father: The Man I Never Knew

2020-11-24T17:07:08-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Renewing and Rejecting: Comparing Architecture and Music

2020-11-23T17:14:43-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Four Book Recommendations for the Close of the Year

2020-11-23T17:09:59-06:00By Lee Cheek|

C.S. Lewis, Langston Hughes, & the Haunting of America

2020-11-23T12:44:43-06:00By Bethany Getz|

Globalitarianism: Goliath vs. the People

2020-11-22T16:09:31-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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How Successful Were the Articles of Confederation?

2020-07-08T17:09:38-05:00By Joerg Knipprath|

A Declaration of Interdependence: Rereading the American Declaration of 1776

2020-07-08T10:46:09-05:00By Jonathan English|

“Mount Rushmore”

2020-07-06T18:42:25-05:00By Michael Dougherty|

Thomas Jefferson & the Declaration of Independence: The Power of a Free People

2020-08-01T14:41:09-05:00By Ross Lence|

Died on the 4th of July: Fisher Ames, Founding Father

2020-07-03T14:01:47-05:00By Stephen B. Tippins, Jr.|

Revolutions: 2020 vs. 1776

2020-06-24T15:37:26-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Thomas Jefferson, Whig Historian

2020-07-04T01:43:12-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Battle of Jumonville Glen: The French & Indian War Begins

2020-07-24T17:15:26-05:00By Craig Smith|

To Faithfully Follow ‘Roe’: How ‘Roe v. Wade’ Now Protects Human Life

2020-05-21T00:18:43-05:00By Jonathan English|

The First and Second Banks of the United States

2020-05-19T14:21:25-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Religious Liberty in an Age of Pandemic

2020-05-16T20:17:34-05:00By Francis Lee|

The Monroe Doctrine

2020-05-18T15:15:33-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Enterprising Colony: The Settling of Jamestown

2020-05-14T16:40:43-05:00By Tony Williams|

President James Monroe and Republican Virtue

2020-05-11T10:00:26-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A Republic If You Can Keep It: Religion, Civil Society, & America’s Founding

2020-06-22T12:07:33-05:00By Michael Weiner|

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American Republic

Signing of the Mayflower Compact

2020-11-20T15:38:01-06:00By Joerg Knipprath|

America Needs Nationalism

2020-11-17T16:16:06-06:00By Seth Kaplan|

In Defense of the Old Republic: The Problem of the Imperial Presidency

2020-11-20T09:41:32-06:00By George W. Carey|

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Conservatism

October for Russell Kirk

2020-10-20T13:59:40-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Revisiting Robert Nisbet’s Conservative Classic

2020-10-09T15:40:05-05:00By Darrell Falconburg|

Trumpism vs. Reaganism: A Dialogue

2020-10-06T16:54:47-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer and Adam L. Fuller|

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Culture

Renewing and Rejecting: Comparing Architecture and Music

2020-11-23T17:14:43-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

“Saint Cecilia Mass”

2020-11-21T20:00:58-06:00By Charles Gounod|

Prayer, Beauty, and Civilization

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

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Books

“It Was All a Lie”: Stuart Stevens and Trump Derangement Syndrome

2020-11-02T16:24:41-06:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Death and Transfiguration

2020-10-05T12:00:21-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

“A Single Life”

2020-10-23T13:38:24-05:00By Michelle Friedman|

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Politics

America Needs Nationalism

2020-11-17T16:16:06-06:00By Seth Kaplan|

In Defense of the Old Republic: The Problem of the Imperial Presidency

2020-11-20T09:41:32-06:00By George W. Carey|

Burke on the French Revolution and Britain’s Role

2020-11-15T14:09:43-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Imagination

Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories”: The Argument

2020-10-30T10:11:20-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

“Modern Dreams: Lay Down Your Armor”

2020-10-08T16:10:35-05:00By David Gosselin|

Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories”: The Setting

2020-10-23T15:15:52-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Economics

Antifa: The Stormtroopers of Global Capitalism

2020-09-17T15:04:13-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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|

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Literature

“Cain”

2020-11-04T16:57:23-06:00By Thomas Banks|

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

2020-11-21T11:31:02-06:00By Robert Frost|

“Modern Dreams: Fresh Picked Roses”

2020-11-03T13:43:01-06:00By David Gosselin|

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Liberal Learning

Is it Time for “Nationalist” Education?

2020-11-09T00:11:38-06:00By Gary Houchens|

An Intellectual Father to the End: Edward E. Ericson, Jr.

2020-11-04T14:01:38-06:00By David Deavel|

A Meager Commitment to Free Speech & Diversity

2020-10-27T12:14:46-05:00By Nathaniel Urban|

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