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Brian A. Smith is the managing editor of Law & Liberty. He is the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Lexington Books, 2017). Before joining Law & Liberty, he taught politics and great books at Montclair State University from 2009-2018. He tweets at @briansmith1980.
Solar plant near Las Vegas in Mojave Desert, California (ADLC/Shutterstock.com).An Age of Theory and Consumption
Walker Percy at Bechac’s Restaurant in 1984 (Image: Rhoda Faust).The Limits of Woke Politics
From left, Democratic presidential candidates businessman Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., stand on stage, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, before a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)Wayfaring in America
Motorcyclist traveling on Route 66 in Arizona (Michael Urmann/Shutterstock.com).Joseph Ellis’s American Monologue
Junius Brutus Stearns, "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention," 1856 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).The Nazis Aren’t Who We Think They Are
SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany 1933 (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com).The Woke and the Dead
The Democratic primary may well offer the most demanding test of virtue-signaling ever yet devised outside of Ivy League presidential searches.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii addresses the National Guard Association of the United States General Conference in Baltimore, MD, Sept. 12, 2016. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill/Alamy Stock Photo).
Statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square Garden in London, U.K. (Pajor Pawel / Shutterstock.com).
Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, is seen on the Capitol on November 14, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Still image from Operation Crossroads, U.S. nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946 (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com).