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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
An Architect Reconsiders ‘The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom’
A classic essay by Russell Kirk inspired this commentary by architect Erik Bootsma, assessing the state of architectural design and urban planning in America today.
A Landmark Tragedy
Matthew M. Robare reviews a history of New York’s Original Penn Station.
Mobocracy and the Founding
Jason Ross reviews T. H. Breen’s The Will of the People
Accountancy and Authority
Eve Tushnet returns to David Foster Wallace’s Pale King.
Murray’s Lyric Lament
Henry George rereads Douglas Murray’s Strange Death of Europe.
It Will Mean What the Words Say!
Kenneth Craycraft welcomes the new single-volume edition of the works of St. Thomas More.
Why We’re All Playing Identity Politics
Austin Coffey reviews Ezra Klein’s explanation of contemporary polarization.
Varieties of the British Right
James Baresel reviews a book on schools of inter-war British conservative thought.
An Originalist Proposal
Dan Whitehead proposes a theory of common-good constitutionalism that fits comfortably within the dynamics of originalist thinking.
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