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Res novae, ancient truths, and the search for meaning amid civilizational decline.
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Don't Miss Out: 7 Short Novels You Can Finish Before Summer Ends
Introduction
Nearly everyone says that they want to read more, but hardly anyone does. Why? Because reading is boring. “A colleague of mine in history,” writes Deirdre McCloskey, “said to me once that the great obstacle to being a schol...
Science Can Explain Survival. It Cannot Explain the Human Soul.
Introduction
Amid the totalitarian crisis of the 1930s, French philosopher and theologian Jacques Maritain asked a sobering question:
“Does society exist for each one of us, or does each one of us exist for society?”1
Although init...
The Consumers' Republic: What Replaced the American Dream
Introduction
What is the American Dream? In 1931’s The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams defined it as:
“a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are i...
The Guilty Society: Is America Worth Saving?
“To the rhetoricians, the guilty society will be ‘not worth saving.’ To those who have known all along that it is society’s fault that they are at the bottom of the heap, the case will be that much clearer and their righteous anger that m...
Rome Chose Caesar. What Makes Us Think We Won't?
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“The History of the World,” argued Thomas Carlyle, “was the Biography of Great Men.”1 According to this view, Universal History—the history of mankind’s accomplishments—is essentially the history of those leaders, heroes, c...
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