Essays

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.
September 21, 2020

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F. H. Buckley

For a Politics of Mobility

For America to realize its promise of social and economic mobility, it’s going to have to undo the aristocratic policies of the left, and do so without apology.
August 31, 2020

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Daniel McCarthy

Why Not Anarchy?

If the only escape from Leviathan is radical decentralization, will conservatives become Tory anarchists?
August 24, 2020

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Ian Crowe

Patriots and Populists: From Burke to Trump

Edmund Burke struggled to reconfigure the Patriot inheritance. Can lessons be drawn for MAGA patriots?
July 27, 2020

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James E. Person Jr.

The Tattered Contract: A Kirkian Look at Michel Houellebecq

Both writers identify the central problem of modernity, but only one offers hope.
June 22, 2020

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Gene Callahan

How to Wake Up from Woke Ideology

Woke ideology, like Nazism and Communism, targets enemies for cancellation when its fantasy reality inevitably fails to materialize. Resistance is critical.

Essays

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

For a Politics of Mobility

Why Not Anarchy?

Patriots and Populists: From Burke to Trump

The Tattered Contract: A Kirkian Look at Michel Houellebecq

Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch

Flannery at 100—and Forever

Religion and Empire, Inseparable

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