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Leaving Brooklyn
My family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God’s country) for over a century, refugees from the Lower East Side and a Jacob Riis–style...
The Achievement of Jacques Barzun
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Lacking Liberalism
The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader ? by Wilson Carey Mcwilliams,? edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. Mcwilliams ?University Press of Kentucky, 440 pages, $40...
The Real Myth
The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 n Conservatives, argues David Sehat, profess religious freedom, but only to secretly assert the coercive power...
Russell Kirk & Postmodern Conservatism
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Barzun at 100
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The Fall of Rome: Season Two
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Progress and Religion
Not so long ago, before the dot“com bubble“burst and the September 11 terrorist attack, it seemed as if history would deliver all good things. The Dow was continuing its...
