Essays
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Dune: The Perfect Deathwork
How the thought of Philip Rieff illuminates a modern epic.
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Three Pillars of Order
Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and Adam Smith illuminate one another’s genius.
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Why Color-Blindness Is the Real Anti-Racism
The only moral way to judge a person’s worth is by his character.
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Two Types of American Individualism
The separate ways of John Randolph and Henry Thoreau.
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Kant at 300: A Racial Reckoning?
The father of the Enlightenment faces a new critique in his tercentenary.
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1984 and George Orwell’s Other View of Capitalism
In his work, intellectual freedom competes with economic centralization.
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The False Promises of Multiculturalism
The left only supports the kind of diversity that fits its own agenda.
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NATO’s Prophetic Critics
Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted.
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Samuel Johnson as Hero
His greatness is deeper—and more personal—than his literary achievements.
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