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C.S. Lewis and the Dance of Masculine and Feminine

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The Millennia-Long History of American Liberty

One of the first hurdles in designing a course is assigning readings. Digital databases, book scanning, and ebooks have empowered teachers to assemble any combination of chapters, journals, and primary sources, but having so many choices can be as paralyzing as it is liberating. Continue Reading...
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The Economic End of History

The final dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 heralded the victory of Western democratic societies over communism and the ideologies of collectivism. Proponents of the market economy now had definitive proof that central economic planning cannot outperform a decentralized market order, in terms of creating goods that people value and distributing them in a timely, efficient manner. Continue Reading...
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Jimmy Lai: ‘Do Not Be Afraid’

“I think knowledge does not determine experience; I think experience determines knowledge. Because I had the experience of Hong Kong being a free market, that’s why I could understand Hayek to such an extent.” Continue Reading...
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American Prometheus

In Rockefeller Center stands the famous statue of Prometheus, the benefactor of mankind, bringing fire from heaven. In Hesiod’s telling, Prometheus is accompanied by Pandora; while Prometheus brings art and learning, she brings all the pains and travails of life, slamming the lid of her famous box before hope can escape. Continue Reading...
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Samuel Alito: A Portrait in Humility

I was finishing my last year of law school when the Supreme Court was significantly reshaped by the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. During that year, I had the rare privilege to take courses taught by one of the nation’s leading experts on the federal courts. Continue Reading...
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David Agonistes, or Infinite Jest at 30

“If he had lived!” Impossible as it seems to conceive, he would have turned 64 just two months ago, on February 21. He is forever fixed in our minds as a young genius who catapulted to fame in his mid-20s and took the American literary world by storm in his early 30s with the publication of a 1,079-page novelistic tour de force (complete with 388 endnotes), followed by a national book tour that witnessed bookstores and halls in several cities packed beyond capacity. Continue Reading...
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What Matters to Cultural Conservatives

There are many different kinds of conservatism—saber-rattling neoconservatives, backward-looking paleoconservatives, free-wheeling libertarians, to name a few. Ronald Reagan fused them into a winning coalition rooted in a common consensus favoring small government, free markets, and anticommunism. Continue Reading...
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Trueman Among the Pagans, or Jonah in Nineveh

Carl Trueman is a prophet of late modernity. Not a prophet in the predictive sense but in the biblical sense: one called to remind Israel of who their God is and why their only hope of flourishing lies within, rather than without, the covenant He made with them. Continue Reading...
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