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America: A Progressive Coming-Together?

By Donald Devine|

Celebrating the Music of Igor Stravinsky

By Michael De Sapio|

Why We Didn’t Need the 1776 Commission Anyway

2021-06-15T20:49:49-05:00By Robert E. Salyer|

“The Tuft of Flowers”

2021-06-12T15:30:18-05:00By Robert Frost|

Heart and Mind

2021-06-11T15:50:42-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Indiana Jones: American Epic Hero

2021-06-12T12:30:36-05:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

Chesterton Meets the Devil

2021-06-11T15:03:17-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Anna Julia Cooper: Uplifting the Oppressed With Liberal Arts Education

2021-06-10T16:14:10-05:00By Carrie Eben|

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Advancing in Darkness: Some Reflections on our Ahistorical Present

2021-05-11T09:24:48-05:00By David Eisenberg|

Cursive and the Brave New World

2021-05-08T14:58:34-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

The American College of the Building Arts

2021-06-11T09:02:07-05:00By A. Wade Razzi|

Evelyn Waugh on Style & Substance in Writing

2021-05-06T16:07:32-05:00By David Deavel|

The Case for the Liberal Arts: Stronger Than Ever?

2021-05-05T16:49:37-05:00By Wilfred McClay|

Prohibition, Democracy, and the State

2021-05-04T16:30:38-05:00By Mark Malvasi|

Books Your Kids Should Read to Combat Wokeism

2021-04-27T16:29:15-05:00By Annie Holmquist|

Reimagining Education to Give Parents More Power

2021-04-26T16:34:56-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Brutus: An Honorable Hero?

2021-04-23T07:33:45-05:00By E.J. Hutchinson|

Neil Postman’s Vision of Humane Education

2021-04-24T08:09:06-05:00By Josh Pauling|

Saving the Classics From Cancel Culture

2021-04-14T11:06:42-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

A Worthy Chase: Pursuing an Ideal Education

2021-04-22T09:39:55-05:00By José Maria J. Yulo|

Fields of Culture

2021-04-27T20:25:41-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Sex, Nonsense, and Shakespeare

2021-04-22T10:01:14-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

“The Karate Kid” & the Merits of Authority-Based Discipleship

2021-04-22T10:02:20-05:00By Raymond Dokupil|

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American Republic

Liberalism & the Conduct of American Foreign Policy

2021-05-14T12:40:53-05:00By Nate Hochman|

Prohibition, Democracy, and the State

2021-05-04T16:30:38-05:00By Mark Malvasi|

George Washington: Indispensable Man

2021-04-29T16:00:18-05:00By Forrest McDonald|

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Conservatism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Romantic Conservative

2021-04-20T14:05:04-05:00By Loren Brown|

What Remains of Conservatism?

2021-04-04T11:33:41-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Artistic Entrepreneurship: The Way Forward in a New Digital Era

2021-03-24T19:12:06-05:00By Kay Clarity|

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Culture

Picking a Bone With René Girard

2021-05-26T16:01:42-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

Friedrich-Georg Jünger on Technology & Prometheanism

2021-06-01T19:40:04-05:00By Matthew Pheneger|

Freedom, Western Tradition, & “The Unbroken Thread”

2021-05-28T23:13:50-05:00By Jordan Alexander Hill|

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Books

Ten (Short) Great Books for Summer Reading

2021-05-25T08:44:01-05:00By David J. Davis|

Getting First Things First in Catholic Higher Education

2021-05-22T21:44:28-05:00By David Deavel|

The Importance of the Ascension

2021-04-28T15:57:56-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

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Politics

Liberalism & the Conduct of American Foreign Policy

2021-05-14T12:40:53-05:00By Nate Hochman|

Escaping Political Kitsch

2021-05-07T15:41:04-05:00By Adam De Gree|

Taking a Stand in the Modern Workplace

2021-05-06T16:00:26-05:00By Jeffrey Polet|

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Imagination

The Gentle Genius of Thomas Howard

2021-01-29T12:01:09-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

2021-01-21T12:00:41-06:00By Eva Brann|

“The Speech”: Maintaining Sanity in an Insane World

2021-01-08T09:36:34-06:00By Forrest McDonald|

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Economics

Car Repair, Self-Interest, & the Benevolent Investor

2021-05-19T10:43:50-05:00By Christopher Nelson|

Taking a Stand in the Modern Workplace

2021-05-06T16:00:26-05:00By Jeffrey Polet|

The American College of the Building Arts

2021-06-11T09:02:07-05:00By A. Wade Razzi|

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Literature

C.S. Lewis on Romanticism

2021-05-27T16:58:32-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

“The Twilight of the West”

2021-05-23T11:35:39-05:00By Walt Garlington|

“Artillery”

2021-05-07T11:19:18-05:00By George Herbert|

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Liberal Learning

Requiem for a Soldier: Louis Awerbuck

2021-06-11T08:57:46-05:00By José Maria J. Yulo|

The Imitation of Heroes

2021-05-29T05:45:43-05:00By Christopher Nelson|

Liberal Learning: Faithful & Useless?

2021-05-27T09:18:24-05:00By Eva Brann|

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