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Who Was the American in 1775?

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Driving Through Virginia

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Dante on Sin

2019-09-20T14:16:30-05:00By Louis Markos|

Fortitude Made Manifest: J. Michael Straczynski’s “Becoming Superman”

2019-09-17T21:14:43-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

What Is the Constitution For?

2019-09-16T22:02:44-05:00By Bruce Frohnen|

The Coups Against the Constitution

2019-09-16T22:10:49-05:00By Paul Krause|

Juries, Judges, and Justice Thomas on Defamation

2019-09-15T22:17:38-05:00By Thomas Ascik|

Sacrificial Love and Heroic Prudence

2019-09-15T22:05:14-05:00By David Deavel|

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Saint Augustine’s “Confessions”: An Introduction

2018-10-15T20:53:00-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Augustine Option: A Third Way?

2019-06-06T12:17:44-05:00By Casey Chalk|

Opting for Saint Benedict in an Ordinary Parish

2019-01-27T15:26:18-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

What Did Thomas Aquinas Say About Citizenship & Immigration?

2019-06-27T12:47:34-05:00By Jerry Salyer|

Is Plato’s Feverish City Good?

2019-06-04T16:02:20-05:00By Brian Jones|

With Hearts Expanded

2019-01-27T15:31:24-05:00By Benedict of Nursia|

Mending Walls: Why Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

2019-03-05T14:53:05-05:00By John Horvat|

Rebuilding Western Civilization: A Tale of Two Monasteries

2019-07-18T12:11:27-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

The Right Idea: How West & East Seek the True, Good, & Beautiful

2019-07-10T23:21:43-05:00By George Stanciu|

God, John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, & the Fall of the Soviet Union

2019-04-25T15:52:41-05:00By Christopher Beiting|

Augustine’s “Confessions” Unpacked

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The Harrowing of Hell

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Does Love Always Lead to Suffering?

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The Shattered Image of the Thirteenth Century

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Fanaticism: Distorting Humanity?

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Imagination

Fortitude Made Manifest: J. Michael Straczynski’s “Becoming Superman”

2019-09-17T21:14:43-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Cultivating the Christian Imagination of the Child

2019-09-14T09:06:54-05:00By Jessica Keating|

In Defense of Jane Eyre

2019-09-11T23:43:16-05:00By Christine Norvell|

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Conservatism

Tacitus and the Germans

2019-09-06T22:53:48-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Legalizing the Resurrection

2019-09-09T11:52:05-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

An Immigrant Like Me

2019-08-27T17:11:52-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Culture

In Time of War: Arthur Honegger’s Symphony No. 2

2019-09-19T23:17:02-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

“Secrets of Blackmoor: The True History of Dungeons & Dragons”

2019-09-15T15:14:12-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

“Into the Fire”

2019-09-13T11:41:39-05:00By Bruce Springsteen|

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Books

Avoiding the Latest Fad: Elbert Hubbard’s “Scrapbook”

2019-09-13T14:53:57-05:00By John Mark Reynolds|

In Defense of Jane Eyre

2019-09-11T23:43:16-05:00By Christine Norvell|

Books I’d Like to Write

2019-09-07T22:22:34-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Politics

Conservatism and Our Constitutional Inheritance

2019-09-08T23:16:39-05:00By Greg Weiner|

When Mother Teresa Came to Washington

2019-09-06T10:21:50-05:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

George Kennan’s Diaries

2019-09-04T23:49:16-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

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American Republic

What Is the Constitution For?

2019-09-16T22:02:44-05:00By Bruce Frohnen|

The Coups Against the Constitution

2019-09-16T22:10:49-05:00By Paul Krause|

Juries, Judges, and Justice Thomas on Defamation

2019-09-15T22:17:38-05:00By Thomas Ascik|

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Economics

May We Root for Recession?

2019-09-04T01:16:37-05:00By David Deavel|

“Factory”

2019-09-10T23:30:57-05:00By Bruce Springsteen|

Business Is a Many Splendored Thing

2019-09-02T10:20:27-05:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

Books I’d Like to Write

2019-09-07T22:22:34-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

The Witness and Wisdom of C.S. Lewis

2019-09-04T15:06:29-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Listening to “East Coker”

2019-08-31T20:59:12-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

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Liberal Learning

Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues

2019-09-09T16:01:00-05:00By Eva Brann|

Classical Education Without Tears?

2019-09-05T23:48:22-05:00By Arthur Hippler|

What Has Athens To Do With You?

2019-08-12T12:29:46-05:00By Eva Brann|

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