Essays
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The Primacy of the Good
Remembering Leo Strauss.
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The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
The Foreword to an important new book on conservative humanism and the Western tradition.
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Up Towards Traditionalism
Richard Weaver’s “Ideas Have Consequences” turns 75—and remains timeless.
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Make America Liberal Again
Democracy needs the virtue of liberality, not the ideology of liberalism.
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Three Conservative Minds
The right’s intellectual rebirth began with Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, and Leo Strauss.
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God, Man, and Climate Change
Edward Abbey was a literary giant as well as an environmental radical—but he wasn’t anti-human.
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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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