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If You Want to Understand the Trump Phenomenon, Read “The Revolt Against The Masses”

As I was reading Fred Siegel's book I kept thinking how hopeless I felt (politically a...

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Darwinism: A Theory in Crisis?

Darwinists are fond of saying that evolution is a "fact." Maybe, but facts are not sel...

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Two Fine Books on Eric Rohmer

I cannot remember when I first saw an Eric Rohmer film nor which one it was.  Over ti...

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“Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections” by Stephen Prothero

Boston University Professor Prothero's history of culture wars in the U.S. is both inf...

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“The Relic Master” by Christopher Buckley

This latest yarn by Christopher Buckley is a fun exercise in historical fiction.  The...

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On Black Crime, Obama’s ‘Blackism’ & Burke’s Allergy To Neocons

The following is Part II in a conversation with Jack Kerwick, author of "The American ...

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“Russell Kirk: American Conservative” by Bradley J. Birzer

Russell Kirk was one of the leading thinkers of the post-Second World War American con...

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The Thought-Provoking “Love in the Western World’ by Denis de Rougement

First written in 1938 and revised and enlarged in 1954, Love in the Western World is ...

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The Madagaskar Plan by Guy Saville

In this well written alternative history novel,  Germany has won the Second World War...

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Two Classics on the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), despite having little place in American cultural me...

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New Book by Alexandra York: “The Innocent”

Alexandra York is an author whose work we are proud to promote at The American Culture...

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Throwback Thursday: Was Charles Dickens a Socialist?

Not on your life, asseverated G. K. Chesterton, as noted in a Literary Digest article ("Di...

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) wrote some of the more intriguing science fiction of the latt...

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More Imaginative Than Insightful: ‘The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi

There are three interrelated plot strands to The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, a hi...

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‘Wolf Hall’ and the Anti-Catholic (and Anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, etc.) Moment

Writing at the Catholic Difference, Catholic scholar George Weigel presents a powerful t...

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Review: ‘The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree’

Many people argue that our time is a particularly hyper-partisan one. I wonder if they ...

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Throwback Thursday: The Challenging Arguments of Irving Babbitt’s ‘Democracy and Leadership’

"When studied with any  degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to r...

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Freddy the Pig: A Charming Children’s Series

The twenty-five tales of Freddy the Pig, published 1927-1958, constitute one of the cla...

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Why We Miss ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

No, this doesn't refer to a theologian and a philosopher, but a six-year-old curmudgeon an...

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Fifty Shades of What?

By now we know that a movie based on a bestselling book series about kinky sex dominated t...

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‘Malice’: A Quietly Passionate Mystery

There are two strains in the tradition of the mystery story. They exist in tension but are...

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Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...

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A Comedy of Ironies: ‘The Guide,’ by R. K. Narayan

In a way, the marvelous 1958 comic novel The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, is an undidactic ...

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‘No Place’ Is a Bad Place—Le Guin’s Timeless Message of ‘The Lathe of Heaven’

The word utopia literally means "no place" in the original Greek. Thomas More named his f...

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Elegy to an Empire: ‘The Radetzky March,’ by Joseph Roth

The Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an elegiast of the Austro-Hungari...

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Cultural Tide Beginning to Turn? ‘Golden Age’ Mystery Outselling Contemporary Bestsellers

In a year of unsettling cultural stories—from the Ray Rice domestic abuse video to Rob...

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Holmes for the Holidays: Sherlock in Pastiche

THE ADVENTURE OF THE PLATED SPOON AND OTHER TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES — Edited by Loren D...

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Point: The Case for ‘Antique Conservatism’

 I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition is a collection of twelve p...

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Lister Mystery Novels Available for Free

I've just discovered that a digital edition of three mystery novels by contemporary autho...

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Jews and the Left-Wing

  Jews and the Left:  the Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance by Philip Mendes....

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Review: ‘Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy’

Leo Strauss was undoubtedly one of the most important political philosophers of the twen...

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An Excellent Resource for Mystery Aficionados

(GIVE ME THAT) OLD-TIME DETECTION - Summer 2014 - Issue #36 - Old-Time Detection Special...

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Interview with (Fictional) Bestselling Mystery Writer Richard Castle

The ABC-TV series Castle (Mondays at 10 p.m. Eastern) features as co-protagonist a bestse...