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Was the Revolution About Reason?

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April 18, 2020

What Thompson evidently wants to do is substitute his Enlightenment natural right epistemology for that of Tocqueville, and withal his own Enlightenment rationality for the theological-political unity Tocqueville struggled with.

Bronson’s Appealing ‘Cold Sweat’

By S.T. Karnick

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April 18, 2020

A solid, suspenseful story that moves more slowly than today’s crime dramas but is all the better for it by allowing for appropriate attention to the ethical conflicts.

Netflix and Learn: The Woman Who Should be on the $20 Bill

By David W. Almasi

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April 10, 2020

The story of Madam C.J. Walker is inspiring, motivating and definitely binge-worthy. And, for older kids currently out of school, it’s a great history lesson they likely wouldn’t ever hear in a classroom.

Nietzsche, Narcissism, and the Left

By Mark Judge

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April 10, 2020

Today’s social justice warriors are sick people, but they are sick in a way that is much deeper and more disturbing than Power and Purity imagines.

Tragic Affairs of the Human Heart

By Emina Melonic

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March 28, 2020

In Fritz Lang’s “The Woman in the Window,” Edward G. Robinson shines as an academic, yearning for passion over his life of silent desperation. But, as his character reveals, there is always a cost for such untamed desire.

The Myth of Civil Rights

By Matthew Boose

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March 21, 2020

Agree or disagree, the rage that Christopher Caldwell identifies isn’t going away.

Psyche, Soul, and ‘Cedarwood Road’

By Mark Judge

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March 20, 2020

It is only in middle age that we can begin to break free from the forces that shaped us.

‘The Hunt’ Deserves to be Seen

By Armando Simón

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March 19, 2020

“The Hunt” is likely to join a long list of neglected movies—but it doesn’t have to.

‘I Still Believe’ and the Maturing of Christian Film

By Mark Judge

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March 13, 2020

It’s a high-water mark and a bid for the mainstream from a faith-based film industry that has produced uneven product in its several decades coming of age.

By News Alone?

By Thaddeus G. McCotter

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March 13, 2020

We cannot win the culture war by responding to the Left’s narrative. We need to create our own narratives.

Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization

By Anthony Esolen

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March 8, 2020

The child who reads and cherishes The Lord of the Rings will have more of substance to say about how we should live than will the child brought up on political doggerel.

Orson Welles and the Search for Justice in America

By Emina Melonic

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March 6, 2020

“The Stranger” speaks to our own human choices. It speaks of what we wish to see and what we desire to remain hidden.

The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers

By Anthony Esolen

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March 4, 2020

Modern art and architecture says “You will like this because it is for your own good, although you are too stupid to see it.” But some people do not have to be cowed into submission. They are the suckers of the age.

Scent of a Woman: Part Deux

By Lloyd Billingsley

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February 10, 2020

The best work of one Academy Award winner may be behind her.

Prayers for Rush Limbaugh

By Joe Long

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February 9, 2020

When Rush’s formerly-nicotine-stained fingers pass the torch, we must aspire to carry it as diligently, as unashamedly, and as merrily as he has.

Homily for Romney

By Joe Long

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February 6, 2020

So, Mitt Romney Schifffted gears; And we listen to them grind, Like his teeth, because the nation’s Left him very far behind. For the moment, […]

‘Marriage Story’ Is the Perfect Movie for Our Narcissistic Time

By Matthew Boose

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February 4, 2020

“Marriage Story” reinforces the beliefs of a broken, narcissistic society that may be inclined to find its divorce-as-liberation message reassuring. It soothes with the message, “no judgment.” But is that really what America needs to hear?

The End of the End of History

By Bill Asher

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January 28, 2020

In the end, the most fervent believers in the god that failed were anti-Communists. They failed to anticipate the end of Soviet Communism.

Queen Elizabeth Beats Hollywood and the Stumblebum Sussexes

By Ilana Mercer

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January 25, 2020

Once upon a time, a dolt from Tinseltown imagined she was a match for the queen of England.

The Grubby Corruption of Our Power Elite

By Roger Kimball

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January 25, 2020

We all owe Peter Schweizer an enormous debt of gratitude for his enormous and effective labors in bringing sunlight to these tenebrous and mephitic climes.