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January 7, 2020|Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, George Grant, James Burnham, Whittaker Chambers, Willmoore Kendall

Leaving the Faith

by Mark T. Mitchell|

Whittaker Chambers before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Aug. 25, 1948. He repeated his testimony that State Department Director, Alger Hiss, was a secret communist. Hiss is in mid-ground left, looking into camera. (BSLOC_2014_13_57)
Our own convictions are inevitably strengthened when someone who has long opposed our views experiences a change of heart and joins our side.

February 1, 2019|Andrew Bacevich, Christopher Lasch, Donald Trump, Iraq War, Middle East, Twilight of the American Century

“Slouching Towards Mar-a-Lago:” A Conversation with Andrew Bacevich

by Andrew J. Bacevich|

Andrew Bacevich discusses his new book Twilight of the American Century

March 7, 2018|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anthropocentrism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Brooks Adams, Christopher Lasch, Henry Adams, Oswald Spengler, pessimism, progress

We’re on a Road to Nowhere

by Paul Seaton|

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In times like these, critics of progress gain in relevance and interest: perhaps they’re on to something.

February 26, 2018|

Robert L. Paquette Responds: The Flame Needs to Be Turned Up

by Robert L. Paquette|

In response to: What Worlds Have They to Conquer?: A Higher Ed Dystopia

Some colleges have allowed oases to exist, but these are programs. The desirable reform of the liberal arts is curricular not just programmatic.

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Never, Never Surrender

by Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill

It's true that liberal arts curricula and academic disciplines are neglected at too many colleges, but some top public universities are countering these trends.

Paquette’s Dystopia Depicts a Future that Has Already Happened

by James M. Patterson

The issue is no longer the preservation of liberal arts curricula at elite liberal arts colleges. By now, these institutions have made their choices.

We Can Save the Remnant

by Jane Shaw Stroup

Whether Americans will lose their faith in a college education is far from certain. Even if they did, a Reformation isn't necessarily in the offing.

Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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