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10 C.S. Lewis Books Every Imaginative Conservative Should Read

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Anatomizing Our Schizophrenia

Fields of Culture

2021-04-16T12:50:03-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Sex, Nonsense, and Shakespeare

2021-04-16T11:46:13-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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

2021-04-16T10:56:48-05:00By Raymond Dokupil|

A New Homestead Act

2021-04-12T14:24:25-05:00By Seth Carey|

Ideological Neo-Colonialism In The 21st Century

2021-04-16T10:39:51-05:00By David Deavel|

Literature, Geography, and Clarity

2021-04-14T14:35:00-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

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Geography of Being

2020-10-12T10:40:31-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

What Is Patriotic Education?

2020-10-12T09:07:17-05:00By Gary Houchens|

Constancy and Coleridge

2020-10-07T14:38:10-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

The “Eumenides”: Patriotism & Moderated Modernity

2020-10-06T22:17:07-05:00By Eva Brann|

John Calvin and the American Republic

2020-10-01T15:44:28-05:00By Matthew Carpenter|

What Is a Nation?

2020-09-28T19:39:57-05:00By Samuel Stone|

America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders

2020-12-03T13:36:18-06:00By Robert Reilly|

Aristotle Contra Mundum: The Woke Come for the Philosopher

2020-09-20T15:15:19-05:00By Anthony Yetzer|

Habit and Grace

2020-09-19T11:00:48-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Madison’s “Extended Republic” and the Culture Wars

2020-09-16T13:58:33-05:00By Thomas Koenig|

The Indispensable Legacy of Gouverneur Morris

2020-09-15T11:01:27-05:00By Tyler MacQueen|

The True, the Good, and the Ugly in “Till We Have Faces”

2020-09-01T11:31:32-05:00By Christine Norvell|

Going to Heaven With C.S. Lewis

2020-08-30T16:15:53-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Going to Hell and Purgatory With C.S. Lewis

2020-08-20T16:32:43-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Life After Death With the Poets

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

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American Republic

Boston’s Bohemian Tory

2021-03-21T23:21:01-05:00By Michael J. Connolly|

The Meaning, History, & Purpose of the Second Amendment

2021-03-16T11:37:16-05:00By Odelia Chan|

The American Republic & the Long Shadow of Rome

2021-03-14T20:36:55-05:00By Stephen M. Klugewicz|

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Conservatism

Innocence Lost: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Literature

2021-03-02T00:45:37-06:00By Paul Krause|

Standing Athwart or Pulling the Plug at ‘National Review’?

2021-03-11T08:00:00-06:00By David Deavel|

Rush Limbaugh, Defender of Life

2021-04-16T12:20:41-05:00By Eric Sammons|

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Culture

Fields of Culture

2021-04-16T12:50:03-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

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

2021-04-16T10:56:48-05:00By Raymond Dokupil|

Music in the Life of Thomas Jefferson

2021-04-12T18:33:25-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

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Books

Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy

2021-03-31T15:06:30-05:00By Miles Smith|

A Mother’s Tale: Hilda van Stockum’s “The Winged Watchman”

2021-03-25T12:03:45-05:00By David Deavel|

Bureaucracy of, by, and for the Smug

2021-03-22T14:33:27-05:00By Bruce Frohnen|

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Politics

Should We Pity the Animals of “Animal Farm”?

2021-04-05T16:20:24-05:00By Douglas LeBlanc|

To Be, and Especially Not to Be, a Libertarian

2021-04-07T19:41:17-05:00By David Deavel|

The Dangers of a Woke Military

2021-04-05T16:39:21-05:00By Shaun Rieley|

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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”?

2021-01-28T10:11:56-06:00By John Horvat|

Properly Political Scientists: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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Literature

Should We Pity the Animals of “Animal Farm”?

2021-04-05T16:20:24-05:00By Douglas LeBlanc|

The Pilgrim’s Calling: John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”

2021-04-06T14:41:56-05:00By Paul Krause|

“Stations of the Cross”

2021-04-01T15:45:43-05:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Liberal Learning

Teaching Dante

2021-04-07T11:37:17-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

How the Humanities Help Us Flourish in These Precedented Times

2021-03-25T09:14:48-05:00By Jonathon Wylie|

Keep Computers Out of Kindergarten

2021-03-23T16:38:19-05:00By Cameron Wilkinson|

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