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Where, Then, Is Time?

“The Second Coming”

By William Butler Yeats|

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

2019-11-09T22:14:08-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall?

2019-11-10T22:49:34-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

Remember, Remember, the 9th of November

2019-11-08T14:30:15-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Candles Behind the Wall

2019-11-09T17:02:21-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

Why Pop Music Is So Bad These Days

2019-11-08T00:24:55-06:00By Jon Henschen|

The Infinite Imagination

2019-11-07T20:20:01-06:00By Paul Krause|

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Colorado’s Enduring Constitutional Heritage

2019-07-31T14:07:22-06:00By David Kopel|

New York’s Admission to the Union

2019-07-25T22:07:51-06:00By Daniel Cotter|

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

2019-07-22T15:54:26-06:00By Frederick Douglass|

We Hold These Truths: Thoughts on the U.S. Constitution

2019-07-15T14:52:17-06:00By Mortimer Adler|

“Vital Remnants” at 20

2019-07-10T16:53:38-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A Jeffersonian Leader: William Branch Giles

2019-07-04T23:58:50-06:00By D.A. Anderson|

Self-Government Requires Self-Governing Citizens

2019-07-10T16:52:24-06:00By Hans Eicholz|

Recovering the Declaration of Independence

2019-07-04T11:37:31-06:00By Lee Cheek and Sean Busick|

Four Things Every American Should Know About Independence Day

2019-07-03T21:37:24-06:00By Christopher Hammons|

The Declaration of Independence: Translucent Poetry

2019-07-03T21:24:51-06:00By Eva Brann|

True Fourth

2019-07-03T17:44:27-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

American Liberty Reconsidered

2019-07-03T10:19:44-06:00By Lee Cheek|

American Eden: The Rise and Fall of New World Man

2019-07-02T16:45:32-06:00By Mark Malvasi|

The Early Church & the Origins of Religious Liberty

2019-10-16T12:06:13-06:00By Casey Chalk|

Barrett Wendell and New England Orderly Idealism

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American Republic

Schooling for an Empire

2019-10-28T11:38:30-06:00By George Stanciu|

Is Capitalism Intrinsically Woke?

2019-10-28T00:01:51-06:00By David Deavel|

Infantile America

2019-10-28T16:49:01-06:00By Chilton Williamson|

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Conservatism

Brexit and Evensong

2019-10-26T21:55:19-06:00By Glenn Arbery|

Conservative Credo

2019-10-22T05:39:23-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

Seeing the West as a Millstone: Sketches of Solzhenitsyn in Exile

2019-10-16T22:43:39-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Culture

Why Pop Music Is So Bad These Days

2019-11-08T00:24:55-06:00By Jon Henschen|

“Concrete” Poetry and the Fall of Metaphor

2019-11-04T14:23:02-06:00By Adam Sedia|

What is the Meaning of ‘Modest Fashion Week’?

2019-11-03T20:09:41-06:00By John Horvat|

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Books

Confessions of a Late-Blooming Lover of Great Literature

2019-10-26T21:42:29-06:00By Susannah Pearce|

The Accidental Marriage

2019-10-25T11:04:29-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

The Myth of “Coequal” Branches of the Federal Government

2019-10-22T22:17:54-06:00By Richard J. Bishirjian|

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Politics

Candles Behind the Wall

2019-11-09T17:02:21-06:00By Barbara J. Elliott|

The Fusionist Fight Over Everything

2019-11-04T06:29:37-06:00By Donald Devine|

The Queen’s Speech and the Principle of Subsidiarity

2019-11-03T20:05:11-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Imagination

Beowulf on Heroism

2019-11-05T21:49:24-06:00By Louis Markos|

“Cor Ad Cor Loquitur”

2019-11-07T09:38:57-06:00By David Wester|

“Perelandra”: Preventing the Fall

2019-11-03T07:22:07-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Economics

Matthew Peterson’s Not-So-Modest Proposal on Student Debt

2019-10-07T23:25:08-06:00By David Deavel|

How Much Exactly Do I Have to Render Unto Caesar?

2019-09-30T02:13:44-06:00By David Deavel|

May I Retire?

2019-09-23T12:34:18-06:00By David Deavel|

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Literature

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”

2019-11-05T21:50:56-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Beowulf on Heroism

2019-11-05T21:49:24-06:00By Louis Markos|

“Cor Ad Cor Loquitur”

2019-11-07T09:38:57-06:00By David Wester|

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Liberal Learning

A Suitable Boy

2019-10-29T01:03:31-06:00By Eva Brann|

Confessions of a Late-Blooming Lover of Great Literature

2019-10-26T21:42:29-06:00By Susannah Pearce|

Was Thomas Jefferson a Philosopher?

2019-10-25T10:03:24-06:00By Eva Brann|

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