Conservatism
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Three Pillars of Order
Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and Adam Smith illuminate one another’s genius.
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Can Feminist Films Be Conservative?
Cabrini and Young Woman and the Sea show what women are truly capable of.
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How Conservatives Failed “The Culture”
They forgot that public policy is not the heartbeat of society.
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A Mirthful Memoir of the Right
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s American Spectator reflects its founder’s joie de vivre.
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Gerald Ford’s Quiet Triumph
He gave the country a much-needed post-Watergate stability.
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Russell Kirk, 1918–1994
This memorial of the Sage of Mecosta, originally from 1995, recalls the man in full.
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Right Reason Does Not Pay
The story of Modern Age: encounters with Flannery O’Connor, Leo Strauss, and the utopian designs of Moral Rearmament.
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Russell Kirk’s Gothic Ghost
Three decades after his death, the Sage of Mecosta lives on.
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Who Bill Buckley Was—And Was Not
A new PBS documentary misses what made him an American Master.
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