Essays
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In Defense of Jane Austen’s Unlikable Heroine
Though lacking in charm and wit, Fanny Price educates the reader’s moral judgment. She’s worth a second look.
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Tyranny of Television
A 1990s film about a fake war concocted to hide a political scandal reveals a dark but vital truth about America today.
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Recovering the Humane Economy: A Symposium
Conservatives are not giving up on markets. Instead, they’re working to restore the social conditions that make prosperity noble
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Making a Common Muddle
Disguised as ‘neutral governance,’ the liberal state lures us into Weber’s iron cage
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Two Centuries of Dostoevsky
For the long-suffering Russian novelist, all humanity is under a suspended sentence of death—yet his work is anything but despairing.
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Jokerman: Bob Dylan Beyond Eighty
That disheveled man in the green tracksuit you might think is a hobo could just be the most ballyhooed American recording artist of the rock era.
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“Woke” Is the New Sorcery
Ideologues obsessed with race have a reason for attaching magical significance to the language they impose on our society.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Suffering Servants
From the British class system to cloning and artificial intelligence, the relief of man’s estate comes at the cost of his soul in the works of this master.
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Humane Economy: A Symposium
Political economy must be about wisdom as well as wealth if America is to remain free and family-oriented.
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