I started the blog that would become The Great Fiction on February 15, 2012. Almost exactly seven years (and two name changes) later, I’ve decided …
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Equality, the Unattainable Ideal
Trying to catch up on my post-holiday podcast backlog, I finally listened to Tom Woods’ interview from mid-December with sociologist Jason Manning, author of The …
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Just Don’t Call it Fusionism: Frank Meyer’s Defense of Freedom and Virtue
Historian Thomas Fleming once observed that “memory is not history.” Fleming’s point was that the way we remember things is not necessarily the way they …
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Rediscovering Conservatism
Last Friday was Russell Kirk’s 100th birthday. There was a time that it seemed that such an occasion would have been met with widespread celebration …
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On Hiatus
Regular readers of this site (bless you) may have discerned a pattern in my last few articles of reconsidering positions I have formerly taken or considering questions from new perspectives. This is not to say that my basic beliefs have…
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Russell Kirk on the Atomic Bombs
This past week marked the 73rd anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (on August…
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Thoughts on Liberty and Culture
I generally try to avoid writing in the first person or being overly self-referential on this site. One reason for…
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Libertarian Infighting and the Primacy of Culture
According to the Libertarian Party’s official newspaper, “2016 was a banner year for the Libertarian Party.” What was the measure…
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Reassessing the Supreme Court Case for Trump
During the 2016 election, one of the main conservative arguments for Donald Trump was that the next president would likely…
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Peace Through Plurality
In his 1948 classic, Ideas Have Consequences, conservative scholar Richard Weaver wrote, That it does not matter what a man…
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