Remembering a professor of aristocratic-Burkean values who understood the inevitability of change
Is there a Christian Hegelianism conservatives can embrace?
Can a Boomer understand punk, even if the Boomer is Camille Paglia? A look at her new book singles out her idiosyncratic take on a singular moment in pop culture history.
Is Burkean conservatism an intellectual ideal divorced from real life? Not at all. You gain a sense of conservatism when you test its themes in the context of the life of this American general.
A paean to a controversial teacher, mentor, and conservative cultural critic.
Liberal overreach meets its nemesis in new works by John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, and David Hendrickson.
A biography about Old Hickory shows why greatness is not the same as goodness.
Thomas More’s Utopia bears a striking resemblance to the United States in many ways—all of them bad.
The author of All the King’s Men understood agrarianism not as a political program but as a spiritual corrective to the evils of modern life.
Jerusalem, Athens, London, and Philadelphia made American civilization possible. Now five other symbolic cities threaten to be our downfall.
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