Essays

March 29, 2021

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Christopher Sandford

Poet Laureate of Low Life

Charles Bukowski 101—why an author as famous for his drinking as for his writing is the cure for today’s schoolmarmish critics.
March 15, 2021

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Scott Yenor

Feminism—What the Critics Miss

Nature was supposed to trump the politics of gender. Here’s why it didn’t.
March 10, 2021

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Daniel McCarthy

Right Angles

Does American conservatism need a revised canon of its classic texts? If so, shouldn’t it at least be…conservative?
February 22, 2021

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Mark Bauerlein

Two Tales of Low Culture

Upper classes who once prized Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring now esteem no art higher than rap and Miami Vice.
February 8, 2021

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Jeff Polet

Did America Have a Founding?

Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.
January 4, 2021

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Daniel J. Mahoney

Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence

Realism without moral purpose has misled modern statecraft, which should follow instead the wisdom of Cicero and the examples of Churchill and de Gaulle.
December 21, 2020

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Jacob A. Bruggeman

Bernard Bailyn at Last: Illuminating History

The legacy of a master historian is the subject of much debate among conservatives. But have they truly captured the essence of his work?
December 7, 2020

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Bradford Littlejohn

America Among the Nations: Our Debt to Vattel

Why nationalism doesn’t mean Manifest Destiny or heartless realpolitik.
November 23, 2020

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Christopher Sandford

Engels—The Communist as Hedonist

Born 200 years ago, Karl Marx’s patron and collaborator is a study in contradiction between socialist ideals and a life devoted to luxury.
October 5, 2020

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Richard M. Reinsch II

Liberty Is Self-Government, Not Rights Alone

Bureaucratic tyranny and judicial usurpation await us when we forget the basic symbols of our political life, as Willmoore Kendall and George Carey warned.

Essays

Poet Laureate of Low Life

Feminism—What the Critics Miss

Right Angles

Two Tales of Low Culture

Did America Have a Founding?

Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence

Bernard Bailyn at Last: Illuminating History

America Among the Nations: Our Debt to Vattel

Engels—The Communist as Hedonist

Liberty Is Self-Government, Not Rights Alone

Science Fiction with a Soul

Moderation as Pursuit of Justice

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