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On the Use of a Grim Joke and a National Elegy

Until then you’ll welcome into your homes the talking heads who, loving an abstraction, spread a pestilential hatred.
Jason Peters
September 13, 2011

Attributes of the Gentleman or Mr. Darcy’s Rules of Engagement

Even in a democratic age, where social classes are fluid and poorly demarcated, the gentleman is characterized by these five attributes.
Mark T. Mitchell
May 15, 2011

Why We Need Jane Austen or How to be a Gentleman with Examples Good and Bad

Austen provides something for which young people—even the jaded ones—secretly long.
Mark T. Mitchell
April 5, 2011

Without Borders, Ltd.

Kearneysville, WV. Question: what do these two books have in common? A Garfield the Cat book and My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands. Or what about these:…
Mark T. Mitchell
August 11, 2009