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Robert Lowell’s Selfish Determination

Eugene Schlanger reviews Robert Lowell’s Dolphin and Dolphin Letters.

After Such Knowledge

Carl E. Rollyson reviews Jerome Charyn’s biographical novel Sargeant Salinger.

Everything Stays the Same

Albert Wald reviews Alex Christofi’s Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life.

The Literature of Wisdom and Enjoyment

Daniel Buck reviews Karen Swallow Prior’s On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books.

James Burnham: Marxist, 1933–1940

Francis P. Sempa looks at James Burnham’s Marxist period for themes that shaped The Managerial Revolution and The Machiavellians.

The Heart of Progress

Luma Simms reviews Matthew Slaboch’s Road to Nowhere.

Diagnosing a New Despotism

by Jeffrey Folks | Mar 14, 2021

Jeffrey Folks welcomes Roger Kimball’s collection, Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.

Fusionism, Gratitude, and the New Right

by James Davenport | Mar 14, 2021

James Davenport reviews Donald J. Devine’s The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order.

A Singular Universal

by Adam Schwartz | Mar 6, 2021

Adam Schwartz reviews Richard Greene’s biography of Graham Greene.

Ordinary Time

by Daniel James Sundahl | Mar 6, 2021

Daniel James Sundahl reflects on Paul Mariani’s The Mystery of It All.

Have We Forgotten Solzhenitsyn?

by Jeremy A. Kee | Feb 28, 2021

Jeremy A. Kee reviews Deavel and Wilson’s Solzhenitsyn and American Culture.

Conservatism: A View from Sweden

by Br. Augustine Wärnberg | Feb 28, 2021

Br. Augustine Wärnberg reviews Modern konservatism by Jakob Söderbaum.

Class Power and Cultural Blindspots

by Bruce P. Frohnen | Feb 21, 2021

Bruce P. Frohnen reviews Michael Lind’s The New Class War.

Coopting Modernity

by Jason Morgan | Feb 21, 2021

Jason Morgan reviews Klaus Mühlhahn’s Making China Modern

Can the State Punish Thoughtcrime?

by Eric Hutchinson | Feb 14, 2021

E. J. Hutchinson finds some guidance from Philip Melanchthon in responding to 2021 cancel culture.

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Robert Lowell’s Selfish Determination

After Such Knowledge

Everything Stays the Same

The Literature of Wisdom and Enjoyment

James Burnham: Marxist, 1933–1940

The Heart of Progress

Diagnosing a New Despotism

Fusionism, Gratitude, and the New Right

A Singular Universal

Ordinary Time

Have We Forgotten Solzhenitsyn?

Conservatism: A View from Sweden

Class Power and Cultural Blindspots

Coopting Modernity

Can the State Punish Thoughtcrime?

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