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Richard III and the Machiavellian Madness of Postmodernity

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The reasons for Richard’s demise constitute a warning about a deadly Machiavellian madness to which contemporary society is highly susceptible.

A Constitutional Administrative State?

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All governments must collect taxes, punish criminals, enforce building codes, and license certain professions. The real debate is over how the administrative state acts and under what powers. What would a constitutional administrative state look like today?

Does the Right Have a Future? Assessing the Conservative-Libertarian Debate

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Nathan Schlueter and Nikolai Wenzel’s book-length conservative-libertarian debate is a helpful tool for understanding an important conversation and provides the basis for a robust defense of liberty in the public sphere.

The Patriotism We Need: Principled and Spirited

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A timely book on the thought of Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns reminds us that patriotism needs to be about ideas and principles, but it cannot only be about ideas and principles. To win—and deserve to win—elections, conservatism must also inspire love of country and serve the immediate interests of the ordinary man.

Decrypting Jefferson

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Understanding the author of America’s Declaration of Independence is easier said than done. He may have hated big government, but big government was born of the rationalism that he loved.

Bernie’s Relativism Test Is Bad for Muslims and All Religious Believers

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Those trying to block the nomination of Russell Vought are not protecting religious pluralism but are rather demanding that all public servants be relativists.

Bloom’s War for the Imagination

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The authors in this symposium have offered insightful analyses of Bloom’s book and the contemporary university it describes. Can what has been lost be recovered? If so, this will come through restoration of the imagination.

Allan Bloom on American Nihilism and Its Degrading Vocabulary

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What would have happened if literature professors had continued to love literature, admire Shakespeare, and teach others to do the same? Perhaps if they had emulated Allan Bloom’s attention to words—if they’d taught writing and written well themselves—our colleges would not now be so enraged.

“Fake History” is More Dangerous Than “Fake News”

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Fake history has established the foundation for fake news.

The Calvinist Roots of American Social Order: Calvin, Witherspoon, and Madison

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Witherspoon and Madison’s Calvinist theology and political philosophy imparted a firm belief that self-interest could be harnessed, ambition checked, and power balanced within government so that liberty and the common good were made secure.

The Cities of God and Man: Archbishop Chaput’s Advice for Catholics in an Apostate Age

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Archbishop Chaput has produced an able and perceptive response to some of the most urgent questions besetting American Catholics today.

Out of the Cave, Into the Wardrobe

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The easiest test of a work’s true power is to ask whether or not it pulls us into the wardrobe and propels us out of the cave. If an author has inspired us to vacuum the carpets, wash the windows, or buy the groceries with brighter smiles on our faces, then he has done something truly wonderful.

Ruler and Guide: What John Marshall Can Teach Neil Gorsuch about the Constitution and the Natural Law

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Let us hope that, in his answers and in his future jurisprudence, Neil Gorsuch looks to the example of the Great Chief Justice and sees the Constitution as ruler, the natural law as guide.

Neil Gorsuch, Natural Law, and the Limits of Judicial Power

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What does natural law say about the power of judges in constitutional systems of government?

Out of the Ashes: Anthony Esolen’s Clarion Call to Restore Culture, Faith, and Sanity

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Anthony Esolen’s new book offers a bracing diagnosis and prescription for contemporary American culture.

Natural Law, Social Justice, and the Crisis of Liberty in the West

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A reflection on our nature as “dependent, rational animals.”

A True Mensch: The Enduring Legacy of My Friend, Michael Novak

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In the field of religion and the American founding as well as many others, Michael Novak will be remembered as one of the most prolific and influential intellectuals of our time. But above all, Michael was a truly wonderful and compassionate human being.

Shedding Light on Progressivism’s Dark Side

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A new book details the progressive movement’s reliance on eugenics and race science as well as its effort to exclude the disabled, blacks, immigrants, the poor, and women from full participation in American society.

Madisonian Thomism

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Though it is often criticized as being based on Hobbesian principles, James Madison’s constitutional theory is basically Thomistic.

Safeguarding the Conditions for an Authentic Human Ecology

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If we are to safeguard the moral conditions for an authentic human ecology we must take far more seriously the care, nurture, and cultivation of children and young people in virtue. The first in a two-part series.

The Liberalism of the Founding Fathers Is Not to Blame for Our Current Problems

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If today we see ill effects of individualism, it does not mean that we should blame them on the founders. Our problem is a cultural one, not some deep, all-encompassing flaw in our political system.

Make Religious Freedom Great Again

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Donald Trump should commit to protecting the free exercise of religion for all Americans of all faiths.

Markets, Catholicism, and Libertarianism

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Supporting markets as the economic arrangements most likely to help promote human flourishing doesn’t necessarily mean you accept libertarian philosophical premises.

Calling All Electors: Throw the Election to the House, and You Just Might Save Our Country

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The Electoral College was conceived for just the kind of national leadership crisis we now face.