Essays
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Counterrevolution by Education
How the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists came to be—and became not merely individualist but conservative.
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Why Civility Precedes the Social Contract
The internal restraints of manners and mores underpin the external restraints of law.
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How the Humanities Could Have Saved Conservatism
History and culture determine the possibilities of politics.
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Modern Will vs. Classical Restraint: The Mind of James V. Schall
The Catholic philosopher’s final essay collection is a monument to his joyful life and thought.
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Paul Cantor: Renaissance Scholar as Renaissance Man
A teacher of literary greatness who studied with Ludwig von Mises and upstaged Johnny Carson.
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Our Still British Culture
Russell Kirk’s last book is multiculturalism’s antidote.
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Regime Change in the UK
Queen Elizabeth’s death inaugurates an uncertain new era.
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The Nationalist Mistake
Post-liberalism must embrace the universal to save the West and its nations.
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The Right’s American Philosophers
The gentlemanly battle between Willmoore Kendall and Harry Jaffa.
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The Devil, the Delta, and the City
In search of the mythical blues—and their real urban origins.
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