Revive classical architecture in New York. claremontreviewofbooks.com/rebuild-penn-s…

In betrayal of their purpose, universities have often become the welcoming soil for extremism. claremontreviewofbooks.com/before-kristal…

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If and when people who turned to moralistic therapeutic deism for spiritual nourishment come to regard that creed as a starvation diet, they are likely to seek out, or return to, more fortifying alternatives. claremontreviewofbooks.com/that-new-time-…

David Goldman: 'National power—economic or military—determines the outcome of global contention, not the board games devised by professors of international relations or the bureaucrats who play them or the journalists who write about them.' claremontreviewofbooks.com/belling-the-dr…

Without emotional theatrics but with moral clarity, Dan Mahoney in the latest episode of The Close Read equips readers with resources for a fuller understanding of Russia’s past and its possible future. claremontreviewofbooks.com/podcast/dan-ma…

'The 19th-century tsars 'had their head in the clouds' & lost sight of what the West cld offer. Putin is fast losing sight, too. Russia’s liberal conservatives never did. In that recognition lies hope that Russia will find a path toward civilized liberty.' claremontreviewofbooks.com/up-from-bolshe…

Christopher Caldwell: 'What almost no one has been able to see is that the cost and benefits of migration can rise or fall over time. Migration can become more politically dangerous. It can bring a heightened risk of being conquered.' claremontreviewofbooks.com/flooded-with-m…

Robert E. Lee displayed admirable virtues but has been lionized out of proportion to his character and accomplishments.
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The Immortal Sowell
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In today’s divided America, when questions of American purpose and identity are increasingly contested, Lincoln’s wisdom is still speaking.

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Immigration, tribalism, and globalism have shattered the idea that there's still a coherent population that the American government is supposed to represent.
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James Joyce and the Modernist Ambition

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The pill’s radical transformation of modern life is almost always presented as unambiguously positive. Mary Harrington explains: claremontreviewofbooks.com/east-of-eden/

Whether he repudiated it for extremism, semi-fascism, or anti-black racism, Biden has consistently painted Trump’s Make America Great Again movement as un-American. claremontreviewofbooks.com/trump-and-the-…

Macbeth and the Moral Universe claremontreviewofbooks.com/macbeth-and-th…

Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
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Overcoming the House Divided
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Our politics is now a clash of rival dogmas rather than anything our grandfathers would have recognized as argument.
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The crucial task before us is to remain human, recovering a sense of ourselves as God-created beings whose virtue and flourishing is non-negotiable.

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