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Christopher Dawson and the History We Are Not Told

A people that no longer remembers has lost its history and its soul. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The temples of the gods are the The post Christopher Dawson and the History We Are Not Told appeared first...

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Literature and the Foundations of the West

Raphael’s School of Athens In the early twenty-first century the liberal arts curriculum at our universities is in a peculiar condition of uncertainty. No one is willing to say what it should consist...

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Ben Jonson: Good Society

Civilization is memory.–Hugh Kenner I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am.–G. K. Chesterton The sort of poem that is written in praise of a particular...

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John Dryden: The Politics of Style

John Dryden The rise in Dryden’s reputation, commencing a generation or so ago, coincides perfectly with a drastic shift in our taste in poetry, and doubtless with a shift in other kinds of feeling as...

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Samuel Johnson as Hero

Samuel Johnson’s achievement is so impressive that we tend to forget its very high-risk background. In his maturity, Johnson possessed a regal quality. He had produced his Dictionary of the English...

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In the Dark Fields of the Republic: What is the West?

In the aftermath of 9/11, the term “civilized nations” suddenly began to be widely used. Of course, everyone had always known that England and France are civilized and that Syria and Rwanda-Burundi are...

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Edmund Burke and the English Revolution

In his poem “Blood and the Moon,” Yeats writes of “haughtier-headed Burke that proved the state a tree.” Edmund Burke would have relished the line, having proved nothing of the sort. What Burke did in...

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Literature & the Foundations of the West

The questions for the West have now become: What it is that we should remember and teach? What are the elements of Western civilization that might sustain what is left and reconstruct what has been...

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Thomas Gray’s Desperate Pastoral

In his “Elegy,” Thomas Gray wrote a great, some­times mystifying and troubling poem, and, where the pastoral impulse is concerned, an admonishing one… No one born after the French Revolution, said the...

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