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Ideas Have Consequences
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present …
Under omprövning : en antologi om konst, kanon och kvalitet
Under omprövning rymmer ett stort antal bidrag som förenas av att de utifrån ett kritiskt perspektiv diskuterar vår tids mest karakteristiska estetiska hållningar och konstnärliga …
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought …
The Rape of the Masters
This book exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history today and leaks into the art world generally.
Questions to All Your Answers
Many Christians’ faith exists as a loose collection of unexamined clichés and slogans borrowed from songs, devotional books, sermon illustrations, and even the internet. Too often …
The Treason of the Intellectuals
Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this …
The Survival of Culture
Can the cultural values that have distinguished Western civilization survive the present-day preoccupation with relativism and the quest for pleasure? In this important and …
Treason of the Intellectuals
Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "e;treason of the intellectuals"e; is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book …
Where Next?
At least since Oedipus met King Laius on the road from Delphi to Thebes, the image of a crossroads has signaled a dramatic and morally fraught turning point. It was with this cargo …
Future Tense
We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. Americas economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The …
Lives of the Mind
Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius—and pseudo-genius—at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. …
Who Rules?
The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both …