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The Wolfe Who Cried Kirk

In the pages of the once-respectable New Republic, Alan Wolfe has written a scurrilous attack on Russell Kirk in the guise of a review of the recently published collection entitled The Essential Russell Kirk. The review is noteworthy not for its ugliness or completely...

Tiber, Thames, Potomac

That the First Amendment establishes a “separation” between church and state throughout all levels of government has long been a stubborn myth of American life, shared by both nativists and, at least since the early part of the last century, most liberals. Philip...

Awakening the Moral Imagination

Fall 1999 If the events of the past year have demonstrated anything it is the moral and intellectual impoverishment of the American people. From Monica to Littleton the tragic consequences of this fact have been played out on a dizzying scale. Sadly, the road back...

The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents

“Each of the ‘Great Awokenings’ thus have a common cause: elite overproduction, a situation in which there are more people who feel entitled to elite positions than there are such positions available.”

Dissonance and Faith

“While billed as an accessible and clarifying introductory guide to the ideas that shaped the New Testament, I would not endorse this description of Spencer’s book. It is not a book for beginners, nor an introduction, nor a clarifying guide. It is, rather, a mineshaft—dark, with dim lighting—in which the wary may yet strike treasure.”

Prudence in the Political Philosophy of George Washington

“What is apparent from reading Washington’s private letters and public documents is that his political ideas were formed from experience and sober assumptions about the possibilities of politics. He was repeatedly reminded by his experience in political affairs of the limits and challenges of politics.”

Tory Violence and Liberal Weakness: An Appreciation of George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England

by John P. Rossi | Jun 4, 2023

“Dangerfield’s portrait of those critical years before World War I is not a full scale scholarly investigation of the dramatic events of the issues that divided England but is rather an imaginative impressionistic portrait of the period…”

Will Blowing Up the Universities Really Work?

by Jeffrey Folks | Jun 4, 2023

“Increasingly, a long and seemingly irrelevant college education… must seem like a paper belt.”

A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost

by Jeffrey Wald | May 28, 2023

“Knausgaard’s latest novel… is perhaps the closest we can hope to come to Dostoevsky this side of nineteenth century Russia.”

Kirk and Del Noce: Two Philosophers Connected through History

by Carolina Riva Posse | May 28, 2023

“The connections between Del Noce and Kirk provide fresh insights to wade through today’s cultural, philosophical, and political upheavals.”

Liberal Education in the Progressive University

by Jason Jewell | May 21, 2023

“In opposition to much of the postmodern academy, Drees puts forward the quest for objective knowledge as the standard for responsible scholarship.”

Helping Those Who Help Themselves

by Frank Filocomo | May 21, 2023

“…what does it mean to be compassionate, and who are the needy?”

Essentially Lying About the Left and Right

by Lee Trepanier | May 14, 2023

“Ideology allows us to hide the fact that we are really a tribal people…”

The Troubled Science of the Middle East

by Sam Sweeney | May 14, 2023

“Sectarian identity does indeed fluctuate in importance in the Middle East, but it is always present not far under the surface…”

All Too Human After All

by Jesse Russell | May 7, 2023

“…Edward S. Cooke, Jr. attempts to provide not only a new history of world art, but a new (potentially very controversial), innovative method of examining human cultural artifacts.”

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