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A Burke for Our Times
Edmund Burke was the greatest master of the English language, not even excepting Shakespeare. It is no doubt a startling claim, but one that I think is highly defensible. The…
The Moral Implications of Dictionaries
I suppose we all grow unduly annoyed at times with certain cultural foibles which are really quite trivial in comparison with the dire and momentous crises which are rapidly…
Much Ado About Inflammatory Rhetoric
Now and only now, when people are being eaten in famine-stricken areas, and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the…
Mobilizing on the Left: Progressivism, Populism, and the Language of Political Salvation
Progressives must re-learn to advocate for community self-determination, and work to link political activity on this level to national politics.
