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The Genius of Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journeyby david cayleypenn state, 560 pages, $44.95 Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was greatest—this learned...
The Way of the Wicked
The Roots of Evilby john kekescornell university press, 261 pages, $29.95 Prowling Washington’s poorer neighborhoods some years back, John Allen raped, stole, mugged, assaulted, pimped, and dealt narcotics, until...
The Ineducable Left
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In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
French philosopher Alain Finkiel kraut’s subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question: How did the West’s noble ideal of universal humanity”the belief that, beneath...
The Cultural Revolution of Fascism
The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascismby george l. mossehoward fertig. 230 pp. $35. Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.” So...
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
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Which Conservatism?
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Modernity and Christianity Reconsidered
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Spiraling into Nothingness
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Tocqueville’s Mirror
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The Aronian Renewal
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