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Art, Literature, and Life

• Why the Humanities Matter, Mark L. Melcher


• Two Kinds of Criticism: Reflective Self-Scrutiny vs. Impulsive Self-Validation, Joseph Baldacchino


• Antigone's Flaw, Patricia M. Lines


• Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain, William F. Byrne


• The Humanities in a Technological Society, John Paul Russo


• How Conservatives Failed "The Culture," Claes G. Ryn


• The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, George A. Panichas 


• Voyaging with Odysseus: The Wile and Resilience of Virtue, John Rees Moore
  


• Irving Babbitt and Cultural Renewal, James Seaton


• Morality and Virtue in Poetry and Philosophy: A Reading of Homer's Iliad XXIV, Hektor K. T. Yan


• Method and Civic Education, Peter Alexander Meyers 


• Metapolitics Revisited, Peter Viereck


• Kafka's Afflicted Vision: A Literary-Theological Critique, George A. Panichas 


• Bedeviled by Boredom: A Voegelinian Reading of Dostoevsky's Possessed, Richard G. Avramenko 


• The Matrix, Liberal Education, and Other Splinters in the Mind, Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson 


• In the Clearing: Continuity and Change in Frost's Dualism, Peter J. Stanlis


• History for Life: Simms and Nietzsche Compared, Colin D. Pearce
  


• Lyric Poetry, the Novel, and Revolution: Milan Kundera's Life is Elsewhere, James Seaton
  


• Homer's Humor: Laughter in The Iliad, Robert H. Bell
  


• "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor": The Utopian as Sadist, Gorman Beauchamp


• ‘God’s Middle Children’: Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Justin Garrison


• "Sic Est Republica: Utopian Ideology and the Misreading of Thomas More, R. V. Young


• "Politics and Monsters: The Unmediated Desire for Order and Meaning in Shelly’s Frankenstein, Dionyssios S. Agiomavritis


• "The Intellectual Kinship of Irving Babbitt and C. S. Lewis: Will and Imagination in That Hideous Strength, Luke Sheahan


• "A Commonsense Approach to Literary Criticism, Eric Adler


• "The Medium Against the Message: The Dilemma of Utopian Narration, Gorman Beauchamp

Character and Knowledge

• How We Know What We Know: Babbitt, Positivism and Beyond, Claes G. Ryn 


• On Wu Mi's Conservatism, Ong Chang Woei


• Knowing Beyond Science: What Can We Know and How Can We Know?
  W. J.  Korab-Karpowicz


• Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino

Constitutionalism

• The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison


• Democratizing the Constitution: The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment, C. H. Hoebeke


• Political Philosophy and the Unwritten Constitution, Claes G. Ryn


• Committees on Enumerated Powers: How Congress Can Revive the Constitution, Joseph Baldacchino


• Virtue, Wisdom, Experience, Not Abstract Rights, Form the Basis of the American Republic, Gregory S. Ahern


• The Unraveling of American Constitutionalism: From Customary Law to Permanent Innovation, Joseph Baldacchino
  


• Imperialism Destroys the Constitutional Republic, Michael P. Federici
  


• Regulation of Immigration Historically a State Function, Joseph Baldacchino


• Lawless America: What Happened to the Rule of Law, Bruce P. Frohnen


• More than ‘Parchment Barriers’: The Ethical Center of American Constitutionalism, Michael P. Federici


• The ‘Wayward Sisters’ and Constitutional Interpretation, D. Jonathan White


• Innovative Conservation: An Unideological Interpretation of the Constitution, Jay Patrick Starliper


• Power Without Limits: The Allure of Political Idealism and the Crumbling of American Constitutionalism, Claes G. Ryn


• Deliberative No Longer: The Eclipse of the Intended Role of the U.S. Senate, James I. Wallner


• Unconstitutional Wars from Truman Forward, Louis Fisher

Educating for Virtue

• Was Irving Babbitt an Educational Counterrevolutionist?, Eric Adler


• Building Bridges: The Importance of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Humanism for the Humanities, Alexander Mathäs


• Radical Son: The Apprenticeship of John Stuart Mill, Quentin Taylor

Conservatism

• Birzer, the Kirk Revival, and the Achievements of Recent Scholarship, H. Lee Cheek

Economics and Morality

• Economics and the Moral Order, Joseph Baldacchino 


• A Humane Economy versus Economism, Ralph E. Ancil 


• Economics and Morality: Friedrich von Hayek and the Common Good, David J. Peterson 

The Moral Imagination

• Imaginative Origins of Modernity: Life as Daydream and Nightmare, Claes G. Ryn


• Lincoln, Macbeth, and the Moral Imagination, Michael Knox Beran


• Sentimental Hogwash? On Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Daniel J. Sullivan 


• Burke and the Imaginative Grasp of Reality, Ryan Holston

Religion and Society

• Religion and the Constitution, Joseph Baldacchino on Craycraft's The American Myth of Religious Freedom


• Mill's Religion of Humanity: Consequences and Implications, Linda C. Raeder 


• William James and the Moral Will, Jeff Polet


• Augustine and the Case for Limited Government, Linda C. Raeder 


• Harmony and Beauty, Disease and Suffering: Indeterminacy a Necessary Condition for Free Will, Mario Zatti


• "The Last and Brightest Empire of Time": Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin's "Authoritative Present," 1771-1787, Richard M. Gamble
  


• Cultural Renewal: The Principle of Religious and Ethical Restraint, Joseph Baldacchino

Restraint among Nations

• Unity Through Diversity: Excerpts of Beijing University Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures, Claes G. Ryn


• A More Complete Realism: Grand Strategy in a New Key, Claes G. Ryn


• Imposing Our 'Values' by Force, Robert F. Ellsworth and Dimitri K. Simes


• Can a Decadent Nation Impose International Peace? Joseph Baldacchino


• The 'Fatal Flaw' of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism, Richard M. Gamble


• The Choice We Must Face: Democracy and Imperialism, or Democracy and Standards? Irving Babbitt


• Savior Nation: Woodrow Wilson and the Gospel of Service, Richard M. Gamble 


• Unconstitutional Wars from Truman Forward, Louis Fisher

Unity in Diversity

• From the Many, One—Or Chaos, Joseph Baldacchino


• Unity Through Diversity: Humanity's Higher Ground, Claes G. Ryn

Universality in History

• Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke


• The Value-Centered Historicism of Edmund Burke, Joseph Baldacchino


• Universality and History, Claes G. Ryn


• Defining Historicism, Claes G. Ryn


• The Metaphysics of Postmodernism, James Seaton on Rapp's Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-rational Criticism


• The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism, Claes G. Ryn


• History as Synthesis, Claes G. Ryn 


• Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides, Emil A. Kleinhaus 


• Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino


• On the Skeptical "Foundation" of Ethics, Sami Pihlström
  


• Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator, Claes G. Ryn 


• Burke's Historical Morality, Ryan Holston


• Allan Bloom and Straussian Alienation, Claes G. Ryn 


• Pragmatic Conservatism: A Defense, Seth Vannatta


• Guardians of the Word: Kirk, Buckley, and the Conservative Struggle with Academic Freedom, Luke Sheahan


• How Desperate Should We Be?, Claes G. Ryn


• David Hume and the Origins of Modern Rationalism, Donald Livingston


• Postmodernism, Multiculturalism, and the Death of Tolerance: The Transformation of American Society, Linda C. Raeder

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