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Science, Politics and Gnosticism comprises two essays by Eric Voegelin (1901-85), arguably one of the most provocative and influential political philosophers of the last century. In these essays, Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, in...

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Historians, journalists, and even politicians uphold the Muslim kingdom in medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this pop...

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With style and lucidity, Delsol likens contemporary Western man to the mythical figure Icarus, fallen back to earth after trying to reach the sun, alive but badly shaken and confused. During the twentieth century, Delsol argues, man flew too close...

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The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his...

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The regrettable fact is that the subject of manners is not much discussed anymore, and good manners seem practiced even less. But good manners are a prerequisite for the growth of moral character; they are the habits of conduct and behavior by whi...

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Budziszewski on natural law is simply the best. . . . A must read." --James V. Schall, S.J., author of Another Sort of Learning "Truly fundamental . . . I shall enjoy reading [it] over and over again." --Russell Hittinger, author of...

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Do good and evil exist? Absolutely. In this bracing book, the eminent Dutch philosopher Andreas Kinneging turns fashionable thinking on its head, revealing how good and evil are objective, universal, and unchanging--and how they must be rediscover...

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Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play? At the same time, those who pursue the life of the m...

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Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons--Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (an...

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"Brilliant . . . This is the book Americans need to read now."--Larry Kudlow "Should be required reading." --Weekly Standard "An amazing history of one of the most important chapters in the evolution of eco-nomic thought. ...

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To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are "unserious." But this fundamental truth is exactly what James Schall, following Plato, ...

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Anyone Can Read the Great Books . . . with a Little Help 'An illuminating, learned, well-written, and entertaining survey of the giants of world literature. Busy people, and especially the young, will be grateful for this useful and concise introd...

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Taking "free markets" from rhetoric to reality For three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater debt, and more centralized economic po...

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How did liberals get to be the way they are today? That's the question many Americans have been asking - particularly after the ascent of Barack Obama, the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W...

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How can America recover from economic stagnation, moral exhaustion, and looming bankruptcy? American Conservative Union vice chairman Donald J. Devine shows the way. Progressivism has so corrupted the modern political mindset-in both parties-that ...

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"Esolen signals with this book his presence in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism." -American Spectator Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant su...

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America's Constitution did not spring up suddenly in 1787. The framers were influenced at every turn by a tradition of constitutional development dating back to ancient times. That constitutional heritage passes almost unnoticed today-despite the ...

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Can Europe survive after abandoning the national loyalties-and religious traditions-that provided meaning? And what will happen to the United States as it goes down a similar path? The eminent French political philosopher Pierre Manent addresses t...

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From the beginning, L. Brent Bozell seemed destined for great things. An extraordinary orator, the young man with fiery red hair won a national debate competition in high school and later was elected president of Yale's storied Political Union, wh...

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How to raise children who can sit with a good book and read? Who are moved by beauty? Who delight in innocence? Who have no compulsions - who don't have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who are not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may ...

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Through our society is obsessed with sex, we no longer understand even the common sense of sexuality. Acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski remedies this problem in his wise, gracefully written book about the nature, meaning, and mysteries of sexu...

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Here is one of the most accessible and compelling introductions to economics ever written. The masterwork of the great economist Wilhelm Roepke, A Humane Economy cuts through the jargon that mars most economic writing to show exactly how economies...

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The Catholic Church has long been one of the most important - but least understood - authorities on capitalism and democracy. For well over a century popes have offered profound reflections on the economic and political order in their social encyc...

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Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is "as old as the Republic itself." But what exactly are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tuck...

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Believe it or not, the world is more religious than ever before. Everybody seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular-that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists, secularists, and atheists applaud the change; religious b...

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In this page-turning, myth-busting history, acclaimed author Rodney Stark shows exactly why Western civilization triumphed over other cultures-and why we all should be thankful it did. Modernity developed only in the West-in Europe and North Ameri...

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Originally published in 1964, What Is Conservatism? is one of the classic works of the modern conservative movement-and it is as relevant today as it was a half century ago. Just what is conservatism? Today, many people grope for answers, especial...

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Character is indispensable to a successful career and a happy life. It's also essential to our liberty, because if a society can't govern itself, then government must step in to police our decisions and actions. Sounds pretty heavy, right? Well, t...

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The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because they fail to address the fundam...

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Lee Edwards is the preeminent historian of the conservative movement. But as this riveting memoir makes clear, he has not simply observed conservatism as a detached scholar; he has been active on the national stage longer than any other conservati...

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