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“We are a Christian society, a fact that has little to do with the number of faithful and active Christians in our midst, but rather with the foundation of our culture,” writes Gerhart Niemeyer.
Read his essay “Beyond ‘Democratic Disorder’”:
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“What we now call ‘democratic disorder’ is precisely an absence of purpose, a faltering sense of reality, a shrinking from vigorous action, a failure of nerve.”
Read Gerhart Niemeyer’s essay:
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“To improve its relationship with China—meaning to stabilize that relationship—the United States needs to listen to China whisperers”
Francis P. Sempa reviews Robert Kaplan’s China Whisperers from @simonschuster:
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A reminder from @smithpatrick08 about the conservative case against judicial supremacy and government by judiciary. More on that here, RE the brilliant brief made by L. Brent Bozell Jr. 60 years ago @ModAgeJournal: modernagejournal.com/against…
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“Alito covers just enough personal biography to reveal the character and disposition that would make its subject such a conservative stalwart on the bench.”
Read @nmosvick’s review of @MZHemingway’s latest book:
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“Some of those elite Americans, Robert Kaplan writes, were ‘dupes’ while others were ‘brilliant,’ but all of them understood the Chinese people in ‘their Shakespearean complexity.’”
Francis P. Sempa reviews “China Whisperers:”
@simonschuster
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“Alito covers just enough personal biography to reveal the character and disposition that would make its subject such a conservative stalwart on the bench.”
Read @nmosvick’s review of @MZHemingway’s latest book:
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“Justice Alito is indeed, as the title of Mollie Hemingway’s new biography suggests, reshaping the court for the better,” writes @nmosvick.
Read his review of @MZHemingway’s “Alito:”
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Paul Carrese’s “Teaching America” traces the decline of American education back to the educational philosopher John Dewey.
David Lewis Schaefer’s review of Carrese:
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“The goal of education in civic and economic thought and in leadership, Paul Carrese explains, is to engender what Alexis de Tocqueville called a ‘reflective patriotism,’” writes David Lewis Schaefer in his review of Carrese’s latest book.
Read it below:
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“Religious faith, localism, the voluntary traditions of a people were valued as sources of strength against the state,” writes Ralph Raico.
Read his entry on “Classical Liberalism” for the Conservative Encyclopedia:
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Delicious @ModAgeJournal article on @JamesWilsonInst's @HPArkes_ , my former teacher whose "Political Obligations" class (feat. Lincoln, Hume, Thomas Reid, Kant, Scalia) was one of the best I have ever taken, + who modeled Socratic-style teaching to a T.
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From the Levelers, to the Whigs of the eighteenth century, and eventually the American Revolution, liberalism saw its heyday in the English speaking world.
Ralph Raico’s entry in “Classical Liberalism:”
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Christian learning and a Christian culture or society are inseparable, each needing one another.
Leo Ward’s Fall 1973 essay:
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“Christopher Dawson claimed that a people cannot have a great and lasting culture unless the worship of the gods is basic to it and co-creative with it,” writes Leo Ward.
His essay from the Fall 1973 issue:
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“The reign of poststructuralism in universities, now well into its fifth decade, is founded upon the belief that all things are unsettled: truth, authority, certainty, and so on,” writes R. McKay Stangler of @HdxAcademy.
Read his essay on higher education:
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“One of the odder aspects of the reign of identitarian thought,” writes R. McKay Stangler of @HdxAcademy, “is its insistence upon the simultaneity of both fixity and flux.”
Read his essay below:
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What an honor to write for @ModAgeJournal especially on such an important book.
“Jane Calvert’s leadership of the Dickinson papers project gave her unprecedented access to his entire life. She makes the most of this, producing a highly detailed recounting of the man.”
@Big_Liberty reviews the new biography from @OxUniPress:
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“Jane Calvert describes Dickinson’s entire career as revealing a moral statesman unwilling to let the forces of reaction or radicalism prevail,” writes @Big_Liberty
His review of Jane Calvert’s biography of Dickinson from the Fall 2026 issue @OxUniPress:
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“Jane Calvert’s leadership of the Dickinson papers project gave her unprecedented access to his entire life. She makes the most of this, producing a highly detailed recounting of the man.”
@Big_Liberty reviews the new biography from @OxUniPress:
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