Essays
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Lance Morrow’s Time at the Top
How the legendary journalist outlived the end of Time.
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A Lenin Century
The Soviet Union is long gone, but the evil example of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov remains.
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The Moral Meaning of Flannery O’Connor
Her work has been called hard-headed, unsparing, grotesque. It’s also stubbornly anti-secular and deeply orthodox.
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The Enchantment of Don Quixote
Disturbance and wonder transform ordinary life in the work of Miguel de Cervantes.
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Who Bill Buckley Was—And Was Not
A new PBS documentary misses what made him an American Master.
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The Family and Liberal Capitalism
Free enterprise and the modern family are deeply connected. The loss of one could destroy both.
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Was Athens Right to Kill Socrates?
Cities may be right to fear philosophy, this classic essay argues.
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Conservatives vs. the Cult of the Self
A response to Donald Devine on tensions between Straussians and fusionists.
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Are Straussians Fusionists?
The tension between reason and tradition links the philosophical descendants of Harry Jaffa and Frank Meyer.
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