In the Beginning Was the Word
America is founded on principles deeply indebted to ancient Christian and natural law traditions.
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Articles by Christopher Flannery
The Legacy of Wounded Knee
Burying the myth of the noble savage.
Land of the Free
The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.
Peter William Schramm December 23,1946 – August 16, 2015
Peter William Schramm December 23,1946 - August 16, 2015
America Defendenda Est?
A review of Promise or Peril: The Strategic Defense Initiative, edited by Zbigniew Brzezinski et al.
The American Pitt
A review of John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary, by Milton E. Flower
An Interview with Martin Gilbert
An interview with Martin Gilbert
Poet of the New World
No other poet has so deeply penetrated and thoroughly inhabited the souls of the American people
The City and the Man
Angels do not govern men in Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles.
Books in Brief
The Common Sense of the Subject
A review of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, by Matthew Spalding
O Captain! My Captain!
Books in Brief
Short review of eight books.
Books in Brief
Short review of eight books.
Be Good, Be Good
When you're handing out advice to the human race, you can't be too careful.
Divine Harmonies
Nothing to Declare
Dershowitz would reclaim the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson and the revolutionaries of 1776.
No Limbaughs on the Left
Listening to liberal radio - so you don't have to.
Furst Things
Love, honor, and intrigue in 1930s Europe.
The Home Front: Left, Right, and (Elusive) Center
In an America that is asking serious questions with an urgency not felt in years, conventional liberalism has nothing serious to say.
Steinbeck In Good Conscience
Shillinglaw and Benson are respectful of Steinbeck the way a good friend is respectful — they are grateful for his gifts and fondly aware of his limits and his foibles.
American Meditations
Christopher Flannery discusses American attitude and what it takes to be "distinctively American."
Henry Adams
Adams found it impossible to be an American in the most decisive sense, in the way exemplified by his great-grandfather, a way available to "good and wise men of all ages".
In Memoriam: Thomas B. Silver, 1947-2001
In memory of Thomas B. Silver