Essays
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Russell Kirk’s Conservative Environmentalism
The excesses of climate-ideologues shouldn’t obscure our duty to steward the environment.
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Why America Builds Monuments
Great memorials and sculpture can reunite a fractured nation.
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The Music of the Spheres, or the Metaphysics of Music
Tonality points toward the divine—and atonality leads away from it.
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Niebuhr Reexamined
Does Christian realism unite the Sermon on the Mount with politics and war?
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Art Without Instruction
Fine arts education suffers from more than just wokeness.
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Is America Poorer When Stock Prices Fall?
Wall Street watchers are wrong to think “wealth is being destroyed.”
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Hölderlin and the Modern Sensibility
The German poet and philosopher believed that man could become divine through creativity.
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