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The Wisdom of the Anti-federalists - Part One 27 Feb 2013 | 07:10 pm
I've had the great honor to visit two great Catholic institutions this week - one of long-standing fame, Notre Dame, and another newer institution, smaller, leaner, and less conflicted about its missi...
Who Closed the American Mind? 1 Feb 2013 | 05:52 pm
This retrospective review, written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Allan Bloom's unexpected bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind, appeared in the October 2012 iss...
Who Closed the American Mind? 1 Feb 2013 | 05:52 pm
This retrospective review, written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Allan Bloom's unexpected bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind, appeared in the October 2012 iss...
Leaving Washington 9 Oct 2012 | 05:37 pm
It was on the virtual “pages” of the Front Porch Republic that I announced last February that I was leaving Georgetown University, in Washington D.C., to accept a position at the University of Notre D...
Leaving Washington 9 Oct 2012 | 05:37 pm
It was on the virtual “pages” of the Front Porch Republic that I announced last February that I was leaving Georgetown University, in Washington D.C., to accept a position at the University of Notre D...
Quigley on Georgetown, 1967 23 May 2012 | 04:57 am
The Hebrews and the Greeks, who are our cultural parents, and our own western civilization descended from these two, have always agreed that the only sin, or at least the greatest sin, is pride, a par...
Quigley on Georgetown, 1967 23 May 2012 | 12:57 am
The Hebrews and the Greeks, who are our cultural parents, and our own western civilization descended from these two, have always agreed that the only sin, or at least the greatest sin, is pride, a par...
Against Great Books 18 Apr 2012 | 12:39 am
I make available, below, the text of a lecture I delivered in November, 2011, at University of Texas at Austin. My thanks to the Jefferson Center and Tom and Lorraine Pangle for the invitation. My sug...
Against Great Books 17 Apr 2012 | 05:39 pm
I make available, below, the text of a lecture I delivered in November, 2011, at University of Texas at Austin. My thanks to the Jefferson Center and Tom and Lorraine Pangle for the invitation. My sug...
Seven Years 29 Mar 2012 | 11:44 pm
Seven years ago today, my teacher and friend, Wilson Carey McWilliams, passed away. I miss his gentle wisdom and bear hugs; his gravelly voice and uproarious stories; his invitations to sip bourbon as...
