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Questioning Chesterton’s Own Judgment of “The Man Who Was Thursday”

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If Only Progressives Could Learn to Think Small

By Willis Renuart|

Bailing Out the Academic Fleet?

2020-05-27T01:46:24-05:00By David Deavel|

American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason

2020-05-27T01:47:41-05:00By William Smith|

Machiavelli’s “Prince” & Tomasi di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard”

2020-05-28T14:04:16-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

“Epigram for Wall Street”

2020-05-27T01:21:41-05:00By Edgar Allan Poe|

The Mighty Nine: Reflections on Beethoven’s Symphonies

2020-05-28T16:34:24-05:00By The Editors|

Rediscovering the Necessity and Wonder of Space Travel

2020-05-27T16:57:28-05:00By Sarah Kaderbek|

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Fit for the World

2019-06-06T02:33:40-05:00By Christopher Nelson|

From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition

2020-03-27T17:51:33-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

“Little Places” and the Recovery of Civilization

2019-06-15T09:52:00-05:00By Eva Brann|

A Manifesto for Liberal Education

2019-10-12T18:48:19-05:00By Eva Brann|

Roots of the World: The Program of St. John’s College

2020-03-27T17:23:18-05:00By Eva Brann|

A Theology of Gift: The Divine Benefactor and Universal Kinship

2019-07-10T08:14:26-05:00By Stratford Caldecott|

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

2020-05-18T01:29:13-05:00By Eva Brann|

What Did Thomas Aquinas Say About Citizenship & Immigration?

2019-12-09T16:42:58-06:00By Jerry Salyer|

The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man

2020-05-13T18:44:48-05:00By Russell Kirk|

Do You Know What an Odyssey Is?

2019-06-06T02:47:47-05:00By Eva Brann|

The Essence of Conservatism

2020-02-01T12:05:02-06:00By Russell Kirk|

Thomas Jefferson, Conservative

2019-09-02T00:25:17-05:00By Clyde Wilson|

Winged Words: Reading & Discussing Great Books

2019-08-08T14:44:24-05:00By Peter Kalkavage|

Finding the Real John Adams

2019-06-06T18:34:10-05:00By Gordon Wood|

Thomas Jefferson on Rights and Duties

2019-12-09T16:38:01-06:00By Paul Kuntz|

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American Republic

The Divisions & Trade Wars Leading Up to the Monroe Doctrine

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

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|

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Conservatism

Demonizing Russia: Fake News Goes Viral

2020-04-14T15:42:26-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Legalizing the Resurrection

2020-04-09T12:22:45-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Moving Toward Dread Conformity

2020-04-10T11:06:40-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Culture

Christopher Dawson and the Religious Impulse

2020-05-23T17:30:06-05:00By Jared Zimmerer|

“Lord, Teach Us to Pray”: Reflections on Fulton Sheen

2020-05-24T10:02:23-05:00By John-Mark Miravalle|

Charles De Gaulle as Catholic Military Exemplar

2020-05-23T17:35:57-05:00By Francis Lee|

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Books

Confronting the Heart of Darkness

2020-05-25T11:20:22-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

Charm and the Civilized Life

2020-05-18T18:30:26-05:00By Michael De Sapio|

Why “Western Civ” Is Losing Its Appeal

2020-05-18T08:09:17-05:00By Race MoChridhe|

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Politics

Remembering in Gratitude Those Who Did Their Duty to the Republic

2020-05-25T19:22:03-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States

2020-05-24T17:30:27-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Christopher Dawson and the Religious Impulse

2020-05-23T17:30:06-05:00By Jared Zimmerer|

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Imagination

“For the Journey”

2020-05-17T01:05:02-05:00By Vito Mussomeli|

Modern Plagues and the Prescience of Ray Bradbury

2020-05-14T19:42:56-05:00By Christine Norvell|

“Bleak House” and Original Sin

2020-05-09T10:30:28-05:00By Matthew Guinan|

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Economics

Liberal Arts Pandemiology

2020-05-12T22:13:57-05:00By David Deavel|

The Enterprising Colony: The Settling of Jamestown

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

What Austrian Economists Can Learn From Roger Scruton

2020-05-10T20:31:17-05:00By Allen Porter Mendenhall|

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Literature

“The Nebula”

2020-05-20T16:31:11-05:00By Adam Sedia|

The Poet and the Universe of Thought

2020-05-20T11:44:41-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

Messing About in Boats: Frederick Buechner’s “Brendan”

2020-05-20T15:58:05-05:00By David Deavel|

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Liberal Learning

Three Counsels for the “Unfortunate” Graduation Class of 2020

2020-05-12T13:28:33-05:00By John Horvat|

Why “Western Civ” Is Losing Its Appeal

2020-05-18T08:09:17-05:00By Race MoChridhe|

Liberal Arts Pandemiology

2020-05-12T22:13:57-05:00By David Deavel|

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