Essays

October 14, 2019

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Matthew Robare

The Gothic Phoenix Burns but Never Perishes

The fire at Notre-Dame this past April reminded us of both the fragility of our civilization and the enduring power of beauty
October 7, 2019

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Steven Fairchild

The Colors of Enlightenment

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s now-classic film trilogy has much to say about the fraught relationship between personal identities and a commerce-driven, transnational State
September 23, 2019

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Robert Dean Lurie

Hope Beyond Technique: On Jacques Ellul

The French polymath renowned for diagnosing technology’s evils found a cure not in more technology but in God
September 9, 2019

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Lee Congdon

Hollander and Lukacs: Danubian Dissenters

How two Hungarian intellectuals came to view the most menacing ideologies of the 20th century through the lens of personal history
August 12, 2019

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Glenn Ellmers

Progress and Return: Overcoming the Leftist Oligarchy

To fight tech-company censors and a cultural clerisy, the right must cultivate the mindset of the legislator, not just the conservative
August 5, 2019

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Scott McConnell

Biden on the Bus

Transporting children to faraway schools was meant as a remedy for segregation, but voters never accepted it. Now what was once the right side of public opinion may be the wrong side of history for Democrats seeking the White House.
July 29, 2019

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Christopher Sandford

Imran Khan—Sport, Women, Power

Pakistan’s prime minister translated celebrity, controversy, and populism into electoral victory. What is the West to make of him?
July 15, 2019

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John P. Rossi

The Catholic Who Knew Orwell

Did a controversial biographer who attempted to portray George Orwell as a crypto-Christian know him best?
July 8, 2019

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Samuel Goldman

The German Problem

A controversial historian has called the idea of the Holocaust as the ultimate in human evil a religion-like “myth.” Will a new caste of priests preserve its inviolability?
July 1, 2019

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Richard J. Bishirjian

Prelude to Civil War: Francis Graham Wilson on Spain

As George Santayana famously noted, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Is Spain’s past our future?

Essays

The Gothic Phoenix Burns but Never Perishes

The Colors of Enlightenment

Hope Beyond Technique: On Jacques Ellul

Hollander and Lukacs: Danubian Dissenters

Progress and Return: Overcoming the Leftist Oligarchy

Imran Khan—Sport, Women, Power

The Catholic Who Knew Orwell

The German Problem

Prelude to Civil War: Francis Graham Wilson on Spain

Moderation as Pursuit of Justice

Science Fiction with a Soul

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