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The Fickle Moll Flanders

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The Implications of the Logos for Christianity

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Heroes of Love

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Coming Home in “Scrutopia”: A Happy Week With Roger Scruton

2020-01-14T00:57:12-06:00By Tina McCormick|

The Threat of Free Speech in the University

2020-01-16T13:23:57-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

The Godless City: Until Buildings Have Faces

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Roger Scruton on Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism

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The Virtue of Irrelevance

2020-01-15T11:59:37-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Why Modern Music Should Listen to the Past

2020-01-13T14:43:20-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Will Classical Music Resist the Assaults of the Avant-Garde?

2020-01-13T14:45:05-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

The Social Message of Social Media

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“The Ring of the Nibelung”: Romantic Nonsense?

2016-10-10T14:47:15-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Conservatism Means Conservation

2020-01-14T10:25:40-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Postmodern Music: Groans Wrapped in Mathematics

2016-06-17T14:50:23-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

The Revenge of Pierre Boulez, Destroyer of Music

2016-05-31T13:17:15-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

How Bad Philosophy Destroyed Good Music

2020-01-17T15:43:45-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

The Plague of Multiculturalism: Russell Kirk’s “America’s British Culture”

2020-01-14T16:35:29-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

Redeeming Film Music from the Avant-Garde

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American Republic

“Poison Under Its Wings”: The Constitution and Its Defects

2020-01-01T00:00:05-06:00By John Devanny|

Leisure the Basis of Labor

2019-12-25T23:08:57-06:00By David Deavel|

The Business of America: The New Economy of the 1920s

2019-12-22T22:10:11-06:00By Mark Malvasi|

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Conservatism

Viktor Orbán, Defender of Christianity

2020-01-04T14:33:27-06:00By Benedict Kiely|

Rousseau’s Collectivism

2020-01-04T14:06:31-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

A New Year, a New Europe, and a New UK

2020-01-02T23:15:35-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

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Culture

“Terry’s Song” (In Memory of Sir Roger Scruton)

2020-01-13T15:13:56-06:00By Bruce Springsteen|

Why Beauty Matters

2020-01-13T11:38:19-06:00By Sir Roger Scruton|

“Ballade of Senseless Sensibility”

2020-01-13T11:09:52-06:00By Ann Farmer|

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Books

The Travels of Jonathan Swift

2020-01-08T10:45:46-06:00By Paul Krause|

The Magi and the Obstinacy of Belief

2020-01-05T20:21:13-06:00By Dwight Longenecker|

Deal Hudson on How to Keep From Losing Your Mind

2019-12-31T22:07:45-06:00By Emina Melonic|

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Politics

Christian Democracy and the Future of Europe

2020-01-11T18:21:34-06:00By Joseph Pearce|

F.A. Hayek & Social Justice: A Missed Opportunity and a Challenge

2020-01-10T15:32:26-06:00By David Deavel|

If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!

2020-01-10T01:11:55-06:00By Patrick J. Buchanan|

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Imagination

“The Speech”: Maintaining Sanity in an Insane World

2020-01-10T10:03:34-06:00By Forrest McDonald|

C.S. Lewis and His Critics

2019-12-25T22:55:32-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

The Other Side of Bleakness: On Winter and the Nativity

2019-12-23T10:39:46-06:00By Nayeli Riano|

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Economics

A Jeffersonian Model of Citizenship

2019-12-18T16:59:48-06:00By Ralph Ketcham|

Death to My Hometown: How a Hedge Fund Baron Is Destroying Middle America

2019-12-12T11:01:54-06:00By Tucker Carlson|

The Business of America: Economy and Society During the 1920s

2019-12-22T22:12:18-06:00By Mark Malvasi|

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Literature

Remembering Our Reading

2020-01-08T15:16:14-06:00By Christine Norvell|

Athena as Founder & Statesman

2019-12-27T17:59:57-06:00By John Alvis|

C.S. Lewis and His Critics

2019-12-25T22:55:32-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Liberal Learning

The Pagan Roots of the Christian Logos

2020-01-10T09:38:29-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Eva Brann on Happiness and Learning

2020-01-06T23:37:45-06:00By Catherine Yang|

Remembering the Virtues

2019-12-30T10:47:46-06:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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