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Building Community in a Time of Loneliness

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W.H. Auden’s Discovery of Original Sin

By Cicero Bruce|

“Good Things Out of Nazareth”: The Letters & Life of Flannery O’Connor

2020-07-30T12:22:15-05:00By Jason Morgan|

Is the End of the American Office a Good Thing?

2020-08-02T15:25:25-05:00By John Horvat|

“The Art of Loving”

2020-08-02T13:57:44-05:00By Betsy Brown|

Just How Catholic Is the Declaration of Independence?

2020-07-31T22:24:04-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Was Beethoven a Believer? The Case of the “Missa Solemnis”

2020-08-03T11:23:51-05:00By Peter Kwasniewski|

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The Radical Equality of Christianity

2019-10-20T00:12:23-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

St. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkien

2019-10-14T10:03:55-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Russell Kirk’s Unfinished Justice

2019-09-22T21:27:09-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

Headlong Into Darkness: Social Media as Plato’s Cave

2019-09-01T23:08:35-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

An Invitation to Augustine’s “City of God”

2019-08-25T00:05:09-05:00By Paul Krause|

Plato’s “Symposium”: The Drama and Trial of Eros

2019-07-21T22:20:01-05:00By Paul Krause|

All Is Not Lost: Reason, Faith, & Western Civilization

2019-07-22T09:32:26-05:00By Dwight Longenecker|

The Truth About Political Correctness

2020-06-22T00:56:14-05:00By Stratford Caldecott|

Socrates and Free Government

2019-07-10T15:49:10-05:00By Gleaves Whitney|

Learning to Argue: Ancient Greece to Today

2020-05-13T17:41:30-05:00By Panayiotis Kanelos|

Professors Must Teach the Truth

2019-10-10T13:07:59-05:00By Edvard Lorkovic|

Fit for the World

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

From Diotima to Christ: Augustine’s Visionary Ascents in the “Confessions”

2019-11-27T13:00:28-06:00By Paul Krause|

Pharaohs Who Know Not Jesus

2020-04-05T11:11:45-05:00By Br. Paul Marich|

The Beauty Contest

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American Republic

Is the United States on the Verge of a New Migration?

2020-07-28T16:42:33-05:00By Devin Foley|

Is Natural Law Sufficient to Defend the Founding?

2020-07-26T00:55:31-05:00By Donald Devine|

Are the Minneapolis and Atlanta Police Officers Guilty?

2020-08-05T16:09:02-05:00By Thomas Ascik|

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Conservatism

Do We Learn From History?

2020-07-21T09:06:49-05:00By Nayeli Riano|

A Decade of Hope-Filled Conservatism

2020-07-10T10:59:26-05:00By W. Winston Elliott III|

Banishing the Party of Memory?

2020-07-02T15:43:06-05:00By Paul Krause|

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Culture

Marianne Moore’s Baseball Poems

2020-08-03T14:35:29-05:00By Kirby Olson|

Reflections on George Gershwin’s “Summertime”

2020-07-21T15:37:07-05:00By Louis Bethea|

Edmund Burke and the Last Polish King

2020-07-23T12:04:37-05:00By Bradley J. Birzer|

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Books

Ernst Jünger’s “The Forest Passage” and the Conservative Mind

2020-07-20T13:42:50-05:00By Matthew Pheneger|

“I’ll Take My Stand” as Southern Epic

2020-07-17T17:55:43-05:00By Louise Cowan|

Joseph Conrad’s Imagination

2020-07-16T17:04:49-05:00By Cicero Bruce|

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Politics

Is the United States on the Verge of a New Migration?

2020-07-28T16:42:33-05:00By Devin Foley|

The Deavel’s Dictionary

2020-07-27T17:21:05-05:00By David Deavel|

The Patriotism of a Conservative

2020-07-23T15:08:28-05:00By Bruce Frohnen|

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Imagination

“Hungary”

2020-06-28T19:53:00-05:00By Jay Calhoun|

Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”

2020-06-24T09:57:31-05:00By Matthew Ehret|

“The Sixth Day”

2020-06-10T11:07:28-05:00By David Russell Mosley|

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Economics

“The Hour of Fate”: Theodore Roosevelt & American Capitalism

2020-07-05T13:18:12-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

Why Adam Smith’s Critique of Mercantilism Matters Today

2020-07-01T11:45:19-05:00By Drew Maglio|

Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?

2020-06-27T09:28:35-05:00By Levi Russell|

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Literature

Marianne Moore’s Baseball Poems

2020-08-03T14:35:29-05:00By Kirby Olson|

“Thermidor: An Ode to Reaction”

2020-07-24T14:16:43-05:00By Adam Sedia|

Summer Reading: Good Books for Strange Times

2020-08-01T23:44:22-05:00By Glenn Arbery|

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Liberal Learning

From Wonder to Wisdom: Strengthening Catholic Education

2020-07-25T08:36:52-05:00By Andrew Seeley|

Defund the Schools Instead of the Police?

2020-07-20T16:57:30-05:00By Chuck Chalberg|

“Not With a Bang But a Whimper”: The Death of the American University

2020-07-20T14:26:23-05:00By Joseph Pearce|

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