American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
The Battle of Jumonville Glen: The French & Indian War Begins
The Battle of Jumonville Glen: The French & Indian War Begins
The Divisions & Trade Wars Leading Up to the Monroe Doctrine
By Bradley J. Birzer on May 21, 2020 04:00 pm
Even though President James Monroe could not fix the economy or dismiss the Missouri question, he could certainly distract the nation from its problems. In his second inaugural address, he gleefully announced a new target for American anger: The British were not allowing free trade between the United States and the English-occupied West Indies. ...
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By Bradley J. Birzer on May 21, 2020 04:00 pm
Even though President James Monroe could not fix the economy or dismiss the Missouri question, he could certainly distract the nation from its problems. In his second inaugural address, he gleefully announced a new target for American anger: The British were not allowing free trade between the United States and the English-occupied West Indies. ...
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Turning the Whole Soul: The Moral Journey of the Philosophic Nature in Plato’s “Republic”
By Andrew Seeley on May 21, 2020 04:00 pm
According to Socrates, to save Philosophy, to save young souls destined for greatness, to save human society itself, the true, philosophic nature must be freed from the corruptive influences that have formed him and receive the best education. The soul must be turned around. I forgot that we were playing and spoke rather intensely. ...
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By Andrew Seeley on May 21, 2020 04:00 pm
According to Socrates, to save Philosophy, to save young souls destined for greatness, to save human society itself, the true, philosophic nature must be freed from the corruptive influences that have formed him and receive the best education. The soul must be turned around. I forgot that we were playing and spoke rather intensely. ...
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Understanding Genes, Decadence, and the Decline of Empires
By Donald Devine on Jun 01, 2020 04:00 pm
We have become victims of our very success in producing a comfortable life so that nothing new seems worth much further effort. The United States and the West might even be as decadent as was ancient Rome, which managed decline for centuries. Why not the United States too? Everyone on the right seems to ...
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By Donald Devine on Jun 01, 2020 04:00 pm
We have become victims of our very success in producing a comfortable life so that nothing new seems worth much further effort. The United States and the West might even be as decadent as was ancient Rome, which managed decline for centuries. Why not the United States too? Everyone on the right seems to ...
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The Richard Weaver-Abraham Lincoln Debate
By Thomas Hubert on Jun 01, 2020 03:30 pm
For some time I had puzzled over a discrepancy or inconsistency between two of Richard Weaver’s essays which treat of Lincoln to one degree or another. In his “Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition” (1953), Weaver praises Lincoln as a “conservative” by virtue of his employment of the argument from definition on such ...
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By Thomas Hubert on Jun 01, 2020 03:30 pm
For some time I had puzzled over a discrepancy or inconsistency between two of Richard Weaver’s essays which treat of Lincoln to one degree or another. In his “Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition” (1953), Weaver praises Lincoln as a “conservative” by virtue of his employment of the argument from definition on such ...
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A Protestant Integralism? by Greg Forster
If all political history is simply a contest between Christian and anti-Christian ideas, everything is a battleground. Read More »
If all political history is simply a contest between Christian and anti-Christian ideas, everything is a battleground. Read More »
Portrait of a Cold War Intellectual by James Matthew Wilson
David Pryce-Jones's Signatures reminds us of a more dire and serious age but also of one in some ways more genuinely human than our own. Read More »
David Pryce-Jones's Signatures reminds us of a more dire and serious age but also of one in some ways more genuinely human than our own. Read More »
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