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Hail to the Chief! Music for American Presidents

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Little Women, J-Lo, and Eve

2020-02-14T12:58:25-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

A Homeric Life: Neil Peart

2020-02-11T11:33:54-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

I Believe in Christian Democracy

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Will Bernie Burn Down the Democratic Establishment?

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Debussy’s “Girl With the Flaxen Hair”

2020-02-17T13:28:37-06:00By Terez Rose|

“To His Coy Mistress”

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The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

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

American Eden: The Rise and Fall of New World Man

2019-07-02T16:45:32-05:00By Mark Malvasi|

The Emptiness of the Coming Presidential Primaries

2019-04-21T22:16:39-05:00By John Horvat|

Ten Rules for Good Living

2019-09-02T10:53:04-05:00By Thomas Jefferson|

From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition

2019-12-17T15:31:58-06:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

The Wall: Echoes of a Distant Empire

2019-03-03T22:19:09-06:00By Joseph Mussomeli|

What President Trump Has in Common With President Polk

2019-10-03T15:11:38-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Studies in Virtue: George Washington & George Marshall

2019-01-16T21:55:56-06:00By David Hein|

The Supreme Court: Usurping the Legislative and Taxing Power

2019-06-25T17:07:11-05:00By Thomas Ascik|

Ronald Reagan’s Road to Conservatism

2019-10-24T11:06:44-05:00By George Nash|

Our Enemy: The (Imperial) Presidency

2019-11-21T19:44:37-06:00By Paul Krause|

Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance”: A Jewel of Republican Rhetoric

2019-10-16T12:54:49-05:00By Eva Brann|

George Washington: Indispensable Man

2019-07-03T13:05:53-05:00By Forrest McDonald|

Putting Old Hickory in Context: Bradley Birzer’s “In Defense of Andrew Jackson”

2019-08-06T15:54:00-05:00By Dave Benner|

Donald Trump and the Path to a New Conservatism

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American Republic

Using Impeachment to Make America Ungovernable

2020-02-06T11:41:58-06:00By John Horvat|

Making Sense of a Chaotic World: “Red Metal”

2020-02-05T23:52:25-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Natural Law and Our Constitutional Crisis

2020-02-03T02:39:43-06:00By John Horvat|

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Conservatism

Thinking Progressively by Acting Conservatively

2020-02-03T16:45:37-06:00By David Deavel|

A Question of Politics

2020-02-01T22:00:19-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Russell Kirk’s Beauty and Civilization

2020-01-31T22:18:17-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Culture

Little Women, J-Lo, and Eve

2020-02-14T12:58:25-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

A Homeric Life: Neil Peart

2020-02-11T11:33:54-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Debussy’s “Girl With the Flaxen Hair”

2020-02-17T13:28:37-06:00By Terez Rose|

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Books

Glenn Arbery’s Southern Gothic

2020-01-31T22:21:39-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

With Bright Wings: George Weigel’s “The Irony of Modern Catholic History”

2020-01-25T22:11:25-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

A Constellation Near and Wide: Thornton Wilder and Sigrid Undset

2020-01-21T16:12:27-06:00By James Como|

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Politics

I Believe in Christian Democracy

2020-02-14T16:07:31-06:00By Viktor Orbán|

Will Bernie Burn Down the Democratic Establishment?

2020-02-14T07:28:17-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

Donald Trump: Great Divider or Great Uniter?

2020-02-11T11:00:31-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

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Imagination

Shakespeare on Love and War

2020-02-05T13:52:16-06:00By Paul Krause|

“The Second Day”

2020-02-02T00:44:18-06:00By David Russell Mosley|

Milton’s Erotic Cosmos

2020-02-01T23:21:55-06:00By Paul Krause|

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Economics

The Business of America: The New Economy of the 1920s

2019-12-22T22:10:11-06:00By Mark Malvasi|

Chick-fil-A, the Mob, and the Bible’s Ananias

2019-12-20T00:02:31-06:00By David Deavel|

A Jeffersonian Model of Citizenship

2019-12-18T16:59:48-06:00By Ralph Ketcham|

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Literature

The Land, War, and Knowing Oneself: Willa Cather’s “One of Ours”

2020-02-13T10:38:34-06:00By Christine Norvell|

Now Residing in the Blessed Realm: Christopher Tolkien

2020-02-11T16:45:42-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Ghost of Dickens Past

2020-02-06T22:02:50-06:00By Cicero Bruce|

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Liberal Learning

The Gravity of Gravity: A Quick Look at Astronomy and Its Relevance

2020-01-27T15:30:06-06:00By Andrew Seeley|

Joseph Priestly, School Lessons, and Liberty in Grammar

2020-01-18T11:12:13-06:00By Chad Chisholm|

Can We Save Our Dying English Departments?

2020-01-17T15:07:00-06:00By David Deavel|

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