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FINE ARTS, MUSIC,
BOOKS & FILM
"Named after the London-based journal founded and edited by T.S. Eliot, the New Criterion has for twenty years carried on a brave and much needed defense of our cultural and artistic inheritance," writes ROGER SCRUTON. "The journal was founded by Hilton Kramer and has been home to many of the most brilliant conservative intellects of our time, some of whom are represented in this latest collection of meditations [The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age]. The battle over culture is the most important that we now have to fight and cannot be engaged in without serious analysis of what is actually happening in the worlds of art, literature, and scholarship. This analysis is what the New Criterion provides." FULL TEXT
"Like many other European intellectual heirs of Heidegger at the end of World War II, Camus philosophically travelled to the very edge of the ontological abyss and resolutely confronted a black Nietzschean vision of the death of God and the end of all conventional morality (a bleak vision sparked by the horrors of the Nazi era and the complicity of so many 'ordinary' citizens in the cruelties of the holocaust)," writes MURRAY SOUPCOFF. "But unlike such existentialist contemporaries as Jean Paul Sartre, Camus did not cope with the 'anxiety,' 'nausea' and 'dread' that accompanied this nihilistic vision by taking refuge in the most popular left-wing 'isms' of his day." FULL TEXT
FRONTPAGE SYMPOSIUM on Carol Swain's The Rise of White Nationalism and How to Defuse its Appeal, including Ms. Swain; Peter Brimelow, editor of VDARE.COM and author of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster; Ron Walters, a Distinguished Leadership Scholar and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, whose book White Nationalism, Black Interests. Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community will be published by Wayne State University Press in July 2003; and Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance. FULL TEXT
"It’s not often that a book by a public intellectual has received as much media attention--mostly vilification and scorn--as Richard A. Posner’s Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline...," points out DENIS DUTTON. "[H]e has tapped into the deep antipathy humanist intellectuals have to seeing a beloved topic treated quantitatively, with statistics and applications of social and economic theory, replete with graphs and algebraic formulae. And after all, what topic is more beloved by the intellectuals than they themselves? That Posner would actually treat such important people as a demographic type, sorting them in terms of race, age, field, politics, sex--why, he even asks why so many are Jews. It’s outrageous...and delicious." FULL TEXT
"[James] Burnham’s stand on McCarthy precipitated his deportation to political Siberia. Overnight, this influential public commentator became persona non grata," says ROGER KIMBALL. "Philip Rahv, his colleague at Partisan Review, put it well: 'The Liberals now dominate all the cultural channels in this country. If you break completely with this dominant atmosphere, you’re a dead duck. James Burnham had committed suicide'...More’s the pity.
Because, as Daniel Kelly’s book [James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life] vividly reminds us, James Burnham’s insights and attitudes--above all, perhaps, his allergy to political sentimentality--are needed now more than ever." FULL TEXT
"Malvina Hoffman has been called 'the greatest American artist you've never heard of' and 'the American Rodin,'" writes STEVE SAILER. "She studied under Auguste Rodin, the greatest sculptor since Bernini, and Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore. Her style was more realistic than Rodin's, which helped drive her out of fashion in a 20th Century art world obsessed with abstraction...[A curator] told me [Hoffman's] sculptures deserved to be treated with disdain because they weren't realistic...The real reason her great accomplishment is treated with disdain is that it vividly and memorably demonstrates human biodiversity." FULL TEXT
"Those underdeveloped countries that have succeeded in turning their fortunes around have accomplished this not by rejecting the West but by emulating it, especially its principles of economic and political liberty," asserts KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE in his review of Clifford Geertz's Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. "Those that have remained stagnant and impoverished...are those that have accepted multiculturalism’s anti-Westernism and pursued its relativist goals. Within the West itself, indigenous minority groups like the Australian Aborigines who have been subject to policies derived from multicultural premises have seen critical measures of well-being, such as literacy, health, and life expectancy, all reversed from levels they had attained in the 1960s." FULL TEXT
"Peerless, too, is Frank’s achievement in this five-volume life [Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881]," finds THOMAS L. JEFFERS. "Its clear depiction of Dostoevsky’s epoch, its untendentiously critical synopses of the fiction, above all its respect for the artist himself, even when his hopes were fantastic and his fears ominously delusional, will be the despair of competitors for a hundred years. Meanwhile, many grateful readers will want to have Frank by their side as they read or reread Dostoevsky himself, a writer who can sometimes seem to understand us better than we do ourselves." FULL TEXT
"[I]t was probably inevitable that someone, somewhere, would sooner or later undertake to update Kafka by making him the subject of--what else?--a multimedia 'environment,'" suggests HILTON KRAMER. "This is what has now come to the Jewish Museum, in a show called The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague, a sort of nightmare entertainment that aspires to take us inside the mind of the writer and backward in time to the Prague of his day--or rather the Prague of his nights." FULL TEXT
"Warrior Politics [by Robert Kaplan] is a call for the American political class to redefine itself in terms of a new goal: the maintenance and consolidation of an international system that is, in some respects, a loosely organized global empire," writes JOHN J. REILLY. "This is a tall order by anybody’s standards, maybe taller than Kaplan realizes." FULL TEXT
"[W]hat we should be asking ourselves is, 'How in the name of God has Elvis remained relevant?'" maintains BRIAN S. WISE. "In the beginning, there was relevance to be had: he was present at the dawn of rock music...But what he became was, at best, an adulterer and a drug-addicted disgrace of a human being; the aggregate is a man graced with above-average singing skills and extraordinary timing, but an intellectual barbarian besides, and nothing to worship." FULL TEXT
"Still, even before the publication of these sensational letters in the present volume [Harvey Sachs's The Letters of Arturo Toscanini], it was evident that Toscanini was plagued by an eternal and cosmic sense of dissatisfaction, a rage against the self, along with the consciousness, in music terms, of the distance between the ideal performance he heard in his head and the ordinary music-making typical of most concerts," writes ALEXANDER COLEMAN. FULL TEXT
"Road to Perdition is one of the most beautiful movies ever made...," claims JOHN PODHORETZ. "Every shot, every camera angle, every frame in the course of its 119 minutes is ravishing in a way movies are seldom ravishing any more. In this and in other ways, Road to Perdition is a fascinating throwback to the glory days of the American cinema." FULL TEXT
"[In the revival of Edward Albee's All Over] we get doors slammed, faces slapped, barely motivated hysterics, communal laughing fits, and gratuitous crying jags...pseudo-poeticizing (one putatively lyrical phrase is repeated eight times), and arrogance down to the stage directions, which prescribe the tiniest stage movements, word emphases, and costume details." JOHN SIMON wonders, "Is this a play or a ritual?" FULL TEXT
"Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes [is] [w]ritten in the breezy style of a National Geographic travel-log...," writes STEVE SAILER. "[Author Steve] Olson's a half-hearted amateur at crushing distorted straw men compared to the most celebrated popularizer and politicizer of science, the late Stephen Jay Gould. That literary stylist perfected the rhetorical device of discrediting ideologically inconvenient modern sciences--such as the study of IQ..." FULL TEXT
"Koba the Dread ('Koba' was Stalin's childhood nickname) is about what [Martin] Amis calls the 'chief lacuna' of the 20th century: the failure of Western intellectuals to condemn the grotesque horrors perpetrated in the USSR even as they were happening, and their reluctance to fully repudiate some of their communist sympathies since," writes BRENDAN BERNHARD. FULL TEXT
"Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and Henry James (1843-1916) belonged, after all, to the same American generation. They were, in fact, the greatest artists of that American generation in their respective fields of endeavor," writes HILTON KRAMER. "And while neither appears to have taken even the slightest interest in the other's work, they had a lot more in common than is usually recognized." FULL TEXT
"I want to tell you about two men...One is known as England’s greatest living playwright...Sir Tom Stoppard," writes TAKI. "The other is always referred to as Britain’s greatest living painter, Lucien Freud. One is a wonderful man, full of humanity and humor...The other is a particularly vile-looking creature, a rude, bad, mad and dangerous-to-know almost-an-octogenarian whose art echoes his soul in its violence and aggression..." FULL TEXT
"By the end of Steinberg’s book, it is clear that [Leonardo's] The Last Supper is not only a towering masterpiece--he calls it 'the most thought-out picture in Western art'--but perhaps the most misinterpreted work in the canon," writes GREGORY WOLFE. "'[R]ousing'...is the only word that seems to do justice to the exuberance and incisiveness of [Steinberg's book, Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper]." FULL TEXT
In the often "ludicrous" blockbuster movie The Sum of All Fears, "There is a choking sanctimony in its portrayal of the relationship between political and military men in both Washington and Moscow. With a couple of exceptions, defense and military types are shown to have all the self-control of the Bloods and the Crips," according to MATT FEENEY. FULL TEXT
"Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) ...was, in effect, a premature realist in a period when the harsher realities of life tended to be shunned by the most ambitious artistic talents," writes HILTON KRAMER. FULL TEXT
"The Encyclopedia of the American Left...was selected by Choice and Library Journal as one of the ten best reference books published in 1990...Reference books are expected to summarize the scholarly consensus and to present reliable information," say HARVEY KLEHR AND JOHN EARL HAYNES "...[Yet] distortions in this reference work have gone unchallenged by the historical profession." FULL TEXT
Reviewing William J. Bennett's Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism, DAVID PRYCE-JONES finds Americans often tend to "masochistic internalization of the very worst accusations leveled by foreign enemies." FULL TEXT
FEATURED BOOKS
by Patrick J. Buchanan
The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer
Storm of 1962: Reflections on the
by Fred Reed
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
CLASSIC BOOKS
The Fifty Worst (and Best) Books of the Century (compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
by Alasdair MacIntyre
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by Richard Hofstadter
by Richard Herrnstein & Charles
Murray
The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom
by Chuck Taylor
by Russell Kirk
by Robert Hughes
by Alexis de Tocqueville
by Jacques Barzun
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama
by Richard Weaver
by William A. Henry III
by Paul Johnson
The Intellectuals and the Masses
by John Carey
by Josef Pieper
by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.
The Oldest Dead White European Males
by José Ortega y Gasset
by Robert Bork
by Roger Kimball
Within the Context of No Context
by George W.S. Trow
by Whittaker Chambers
PUBLISHERS
COMPLETE TEXTS OF
IMPORTANT WORKS
by Alexis de Tocqueville
by Hamilton, Jay & Madison
by Shakespeare (Edward de Vere?)
Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber
MUSEUMS
Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA)
CULTURE, POLITICS,
MANNERS & MORES
"Critical thinking, self-examination, and the questioning of assumptions are all widely genuflected to as part of any good college education. But that's not what's happening on many college campuses... 'At Dartmouth, it's not that cool to be intellectual [says a junior there]. It's much cooler to be outdoorsy. At Yale, my friends say it's cooler to be urban trendy.'...'America is not a deeply intellectual culture,' says Anthony Grafton, a history professor at Princeton. '[Intellectualism] is a countercultural value, not one that most people embrace. It's not what life in the suburbs is about, and most of our wonderfully bright students come from a well-off suburb.'"
"The courtiers of Versailles on the Potomac and their wholly-owned subsidiaries in the chattering class love to promote their policies by invoking breathless analogies to superficially familiar events," claims CHUCK SPINNEY. "The objective is to power boost their powers of 'persuasion' by exploiting the general ignorance and gullibility of the booboisie, to borrow H. L. Mencken's label for those citizens exhibiting that insatiable American appetite for intellectual nonsense....The all time favorite analogy...is the hackneyed memory of Adolph Hitler....As we will see, it is a tactic that has been used over and over in the most bizarre of circumstances to justify the weirdest of adventures." FULL TEXT
"L’affaire Lott has seen the respectable Right surpass the lunatic Left for political correctness, a fact which is more important in itself than any debate over whether or not Lott is a racist or a liability to the Republican party," asserts DANIEL MCCARTHY. "One can criticize Lott without feeding into "anti-racist" hysteria, but that’s not what blue-zone conservatives have done. For Krauthammer and Noonan, Robert George and Deroy Murdock, Linda Chavez and Mona Charen, and all the rest, Lott is guilty not of stupidity, but of insensitivity. He hasn’t shown due reverence for diversity, equality and Martin Luther King." FULL TEXT
In my opinion, the 17th Amendment should be repealed...," writes JOHN MACMULLIN. "The state legislatures would then have the ability to decentralize power when appropriate. It would give state legislatures direct influence over the selection of federal judges and the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary and much greater ability to modify the power of the federal judiciary. This structure would allow the flow of power between the states and the federal government to ebb and flow as the needs of our federal republic change."
"Most people who are in favor of gun control laws support such laws because they believe that these laws will reduce the number of firearms deaths," asserts THOMAS SOWELL. "Such people are not the problem. Their minds can be changed when they learn that the facts are very different from what they have imagined or have been led to believe. The problem is with very different kinds of people, often in leadership positions, whose support for gun control laws is strong enough to override any facts." FULL TEXT
"Everyone knows la douce France: the France of wonderful food and wine, beautiful landscapes, splendid châteaux and cathedrals...But there is another growing, and much less reassuring, side to France," writes THEODORE DALRYMPLE. "I go to Paris about four times a year and thus have a sense of the evolving preoccupations of the French middle classes. A few years ago it was schools: the much vaunted French educational system was falling apart; illiteracy was rising; children were leaving school as ignorant as they entered, and much worse-behaved. For the last couple of years, though, it has been crime: l’insécurité, les violences urbaines, les incivilités. Everyone has a tale to tell, and no dinner party is complete without a horrifying story." FULL TEXT
"Few industries have become as reviled in America as the oil industry. In politics, academia, and the news media, oil companies
--and oil itself--are demonized with hardly any dissenting voices," writes LEO K. O'DRUDY, III. "This "oil is bad" mentality has important consequences for our prosperity and security...If the anti-oilers opened their minds, they would see that the 'miracle fuel' they search for already exists--gasoline...Americans should be vigorous in taking advantage of the great, untapped reserves of [oil] we still have in our own country, and in protecting our access to it from abroad." FULL TEXT
"We tell ourselves that in America we are the Free People," says FRED REED. "I wonder whether we might not better be called the Obedient People, the Passive People, or the Admonished People. I doubt that any country, anywhere, has been so regulated, controlled, and directed as we are. We are bred to obey. And obey we do." FULL TEXT
"Child custody has emerged as an area where men run into a glass ceiling, writes RACHEL ALEXANDER. "'It's awful to take a child away from its mother!' Sound familiar? That is because it is the message that has been repeatedly hammered at society by feminists, as well as some conservatives. But you won't hear the equivalent, 'It's awful to take a child away from its father,' because the feminists aren't pushing equivalent respect for fathers."
"As violence engulfs Israel and the fight against terrorism continues in Afghanistan, it is worth moving beyond media reports of military maneuvers and suicide bombings to consider the psychological roots of war," suggests THOMAS DINEEN. "Despite their different strategies, tactics, and justifications for fighting, conventional soldiers and terrorist foes have something fundamental in common: thymos...Thymos is the human undercurrent that flows amid the geopolitical externalities of war." FULL TEXT
"Jack Kershaw of Memphis, Tennessee, wants to file a class-action lawsuit against the US government for reparations," says THOMAS J. DILORENZO. "Not on behalf of the descendants of slaves but on behalf of Southerners of all races whose ancestors were the victims of the US government’s rampage of pillaging, plundering, burning, and raping of Southern civilians during the War for Southern Independence." FULL TEXT
"About a quarter of a million people are coming to Britain from the Third World each year...utterly transforming the society in which we live against the wishes of the majority of the population, damaging quality of life and social cohesion, exacerbating the housing crisis and congestion, and with questionable economic benefits..." asserts ANTHONY BROWNE. "I am the son of an immigrant, living with an immigrant, from such a family of émigrés that I have virtually no relatives in this country...But what is happening now is so extreme and so damaging, and the determination of pro-immigrationists to suppress debate and smear critics so fearsome, that silence is no longer an option." FULL TEXT
"Freedom for the Greeks was not the same thing as modern freedom, of course...," writes DANIEL MCCARTHY. "Greek freedom was also characterized more by the free city than by the free individual...What is more important is to examine Greek liberty for lessons about a kind of freedom that has been largely forgotten today, the freedom that derives from man’s right to form associations and that culminates in the free city." FULL TEXT
"Best
estimates put the annual number of prison rapes at about 140,000, which is
50,000 more than the 90,000 or so rapes of women reported to police,"
according to JARED TAYLOR.
"One
reason there is so much prison rape is that Americans refuse even to think
about it. The sheer brutality of it and the racial hatred that so often
drives it are too gruesome to face. To its immense credit, a lefty
organization called Human Rights Watch has done a serious prison-rape study
and has published its findings in a book-length report called No Escape." FULL TEXT
"Does anyone, other than the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, really take the NAACP seriously anymore?" asks WARD CONNERLY. "An organization with such a glorious history of championing equal treatment for all Americans now finds itself in the position of being largely irrelevant in the ongoing national dialogue about race." FULL TEXT
"Media has created a very large cottage industry out of the suffering that exists, although prominently, within very, very few lives, too often at the expense of other, more important news stories," argues BRIAN S. WISE. "India and Pakistan’s most recent skirmish over Kashmir, which had threatened to become a nuclear war, was non-existent in the American press for three days because Chandra Levy’s body had been found in Rock Creek Park...the discovery of Chandra’s body isn’t even in the same hemisphere as a potential nuclear war over Kashmir."
"On July 23 the [ultra-Left] Archbishop of Wales, Dr. Rowan Williams, was confirmed as the new head of the Church of England...," writes SRDJA TRIFKOVIC. "It used to be said that the Church of England was the Conservative Party at prayer. This is no longer true...[I]t would be truer to say that McDonald's is the Conservative Party--or what is left of it--at table. As for the Church of England, it is dead and its corpse is in the hands of anti-Christians." FULL TEXT
"The ancient philosophers did believe that the philosophic life is the highest and best, but only a few are suited to it," writes KARL JAHN. "The Straussians concur, and go on to imply that the major evil of modern egalitarianism is that it makes philosophy impossible, by devaluing anything that is not accessible to the common man. But philosophy is not the only thing that suffers: so do creativity, heroism, authority, and all other 'elitist' qualities." FULL TEXT
"What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It’s the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state’s chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce," says JOE SOBRAN. FULL TEXT
"Within days of his arrival at Yale, [Willmoore Kendall] had to go to
one of those tame affairs where a colleague... delivers a small paper on
something or other," recalls JEFFREY HART.
"When the professor finished, Kendall immediately tore what he had said to
shreds. His style of argument was to force matters back to first principles
where he could be devastating. The ivy must have shriveled on the walls of
that Yale building."
FULL TEXT
Were the Crusades so bad? PIERS PAUL READ points out that "the Vatican’s own panel of historians refused to endorse [Pope John Paul II's apology for the violence of the Crusades], saying that it was the product of what they called 'anachronism': viz., judging the past by the standards of the present and therefore failing, as the conscientious historian should, to empathize and understand." FULL TEXT
"Like FDR, JFK and LBJ, [Nixon] crossed the line. But where they had been protected by Democratic Congresses and their media allies, Congress and the media seized on Watergate and colluded to destroy a president..." writes PAT BUCHANAN. "Congress then proceeded to gut the FBI and CIA, for which we are paying so heavily today. And that, children, is the story of Watergate you will not hear. I know, because I was there."
"Is there a snob-free zone," wonders JOSEPH EPSTEIN, "a place where one is outside all snobbish concerns, neither wanting to get in anywhere one isn't, nor needing to keep anyone else out for fear that one's own position will somehow seem eroded or otherwise devalued? A very small island of the favored of the gods, clearly, this snob-free zone, but how does one get there?" FULL TEXT
"Glitz, greed and vulgarity": "Some woman in The New York Times reviewed the programme [on the Hamptons] and pointed out that fewer than a handful of celebrities gave the producers access," writes TAKI. "If she knew any better, she would have pointed out that no one from the established Hamptons old guard let the cameras get within a mile." FULL TEXT
"...[T]he NAACP has called on every state to submit a plan to ensure that blacks are not over-represented in discipline or remedial programs, and not underrepresented in gifted-and-talented programs or graduation," writes ROGER CLEGG. "...[I]t is clear that the road to closing these gaps is through the black community itself." FULL TEXT
Call it "Occidentalism"? "Sheiks from Saudi Arabia go to London or New York for bypass surgery--not to Cairo or Amman," says VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. "The Arab street purchases appliances that are made in China or Japan on Western blueprints, rather than producing them en masse in Damascus or improving on their designs at Baghdad University." FULL TEXT
America's anti-Europeanism is at least as problematic as Europe's anti-Americanism, writes PAUL GOTTFRIED. FULL TEXT
"In Washington, it's everywhere, like G-d and mendacity: The DC Bob," FRED REED writes. "As people talk, in fern bars, in eateries, on the sidewalk, an incorrect thought occurs--something that might upset Them." FULL TEXT
"The most fitting memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center attack is to build the most breathtaking skyscraper in the world on top of Mohamed Atta's grave," claims ANN COULTER. FULL TEXT
"It is patriarchal societies, after all, that have produced triumphs of logic, science, art, and literature," writes CHRISTINE STOLBA. "[A]nd, for the most part, it was a patriarchal clique that developed the liberal political philosophies that led to notions of democracy, individual rights--and women’s liberation."
Recent evidence compiled by the NJ Attorney General shows that the rate of "racial profiling" on highways is hugely exaggerated, explains HEATHER MAC DONALD. FULL TEXT
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
IN UNIVERSITIES, ETC.
"Sadly, the culturally Marxist professors are not without effect," writes WILLIAM S. LIND. "When the 401 college seniors were asked, 'Based on what you've been taught at college, tell me which one of these business practices would probably rank as the most important, 'Providing clear and accurate business statements to stockholders and creditors' did not come in first. In fact, it only got 23% (time to start keeping the money in the mattress again?). The winner, with 38%, was, 'Recruiting a diverse work force which women and minorities are advanced and promoted.'" FULL TEXT
So much for "diversity": "Open conservatives are an isolated and harassed minority on today’s college campuses, where they enjoy little respect and almost no support from institutional powers," claims DAVID HOROWITZ. FULL TEXT
Reflecting on post-9/11 America, Professor bell hooks [sic] declared during a commencement speech: "... that moment of collective clarity was soon obscured by the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal hunger to show the planet our nation's force, to show that this nation would commit absolute acts of violence that will wipe out whole nations and worlds. The world was held spellbound by our government's declaration of its commitment to violence, to death." FULL TEXT
"Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections" by Berkeley English professor. FULL TEXT
Dr.
Patch Adams was “literally comparing Bush and his cronies to Hitler,” when
addressing students at the University of Pittsburgh, with the reservation
that "Hitler had a smaller vision." FULL TEXT
The editors of the Harvard Crimson tell us that “…the American people and the individual states should vocally push for the repeal of the Second Amendment." FULL TEXT
"If their [i.e., Islamic terrorists'] goal was to impose draconian, fundamentalist laws upon our populace, our leaders have accomplished that goal for them--even using the same rhetoric," asserts a student at Boise State University. "Bush and Ashcroft's theme of destroying 'evil' is one bin Ladenites would admire." FULL TEXT
ESSENTIAL ESSAYS
Delbanco: "The Decline and Fall of
Heineman: "Conservatism in the U.S."
Kalb: "The Tyranny of Liberalism"
Lubinskas: "The End of Paleoconservatism"
Macdonald: "Masscult & Midcult"
Nussbaum: "The Professor of Parody"
Orwell: "Politics and the English
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