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Democracy’s Moral Foundations: Recovering Our Constitution in Full
A review of A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty, by Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II.
1917: The Darkness Falls
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's account of the Bolshevik uprising, better known as the Russian Revolution.
Laudato Si’ and the Catholic Social Tradition
In Laudato Si' Pope Francis bears admirable Christian witness, but he also makes judgments in areas where he lacks authority.
Living by Lies
Despotism is as old as the political condition of man and is the antithesis of free and decent human life. In the 20th century it took an impressive variety of ...
Facing History
David Satter has written two books that uneasily coexist under the same cover. The first is a welcome, if inadequately balanced, account of the failure of post-Communist Russia to come ...
Translucent Truth
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died three years ago, on Aug. 3, 2008, it was apparent that even sympathetic commentators were not familiar with the breadth and depth of the Russian writer’s ...
The Niebuhrian Mean
Reinhold Niebuhr, the distinguished theologian and theorist of “Christian realism,” used to be a major intellectual presence in the United States. He was that rarity, a theologian and public intellectual ...