Helen Andrews
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Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction
Capitalism has come to profit off our vices, and we need an opt-out.
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Helen Andrews
One nice benefit, if conservatism leaves libertarianism behind, is that we'll be capable of more analysis like this. Great @Micaheadowcroft on addiction and vice.
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[Letter from Hungary] The Call of the Drums, by Jacob Mikanowski
Hungary’s far right discovers its inner barbarian
Helen Andrews
Really loving @JMikanowski's Harper's essay on Hungarian nationalism, from the great lead sentence to the concluding reflection on the rock opera "István, a király."
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Polishing the Nationalist Brand in the Trump Era
Conservative thinkers are trying to bring intellectual coherence to the Trumpian moment under the banner of nationalism. But can it be cleansed of its darker currents?
The nationalist surprise
While pundits are distracted by Donald Trump’s latest tweets, they’re setting themselves up to be surprised by another nationalist miracle
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Helen Andrews
The Vox recap could have been written before the conference began. If you want a report on the National Conservatism Conference, try Dan McCarthy's.
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Inheriting the Wind, or Reaping the Whirlwind?
The Scopes trial, so badly mischaracterized in Inherit the Wind, better illustrates another Biblical verse, “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
Why On Earth Are So Many Millennials Becoming Nuns?
A toxic, unstable world. Hideous men. Pressure to be perfect at all times. Any of this sound familiar?
Helen Andrews
I thought I could skip the Millennial nuns piece, but that would have been a mistake.
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All dogs are bad and their owners accursed, Israeli city's rabbis rule
The unusual interpretation by all the Sephardic rabbis of Elad is far stricter than readings by other Israeli Orthodox rabbis.
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way...
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Helen Andrews
If I had to pick one book from the @nyrbclassics catalogue to promote during their 20th anniversary sale, it would be "Akenfield."
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Against the Idols of the Age
Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo-sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at-tacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of...
Helen Andrews
It reminds me a little of David Stove's line on the Enlightenment, that its extravagant promises that rational inquiry would alleviate human misery were mostly made at a time when it hadn't yet. books.google.com/books?id=FCMxD… pic.twitter.com/3US5SmwkBq
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Our Socialist Moment | Helen Andrews
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by . . . .
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Helen Andrews
My review of Bhaskar Sunkara’s book and our broader socialist moment. I oppose his whole political program, but the Victor Gollancz comparison was meant as a compliment.
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Ross Perot was the populist who betrayed populism
Ross Perot was a self-made billionaire, a brilliant if eccentric businessman who could have been an equally significant figure in politics
Click here to support The Lamp magazine organized by Matthew Walther
What the heck is The Lamp? The Lamp is, or rather will be, a bi-monthly (that is, published every other month) lay-edited journal of Catholic letters. We seek with in-depth reporting, incisive commentary, and coverage of books and the arts to bring...
On a Story by Delmore Schwartz
In 1937, the editors at Partisan Review placed “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” by a 24-year old unknown improbably named Delmore Schwartz before pieces by Wallace Stevens, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Pablo Picasso, to relaunch their...
Helen Andrews
The note that Delmore Schwartz's mother wrote on the back of the typescript of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is almost more than I can take.
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Should We Love Our Country?
This week is the 4th of July, and should we love our country? Richard Blanco was President Barack Obama’s inaugural poet in 2013, and, although I do not claim to be a Richard Blanco fan—his sappiness is not my sappiness—I do admire the title of his...
Arrival of a School Mistress in the Countryside, 1896 - 1897 - Vladimir Makovsky - WikiArt.org
Arrival of a School Mistress in the Countryside, 1897 by Vladimir Makovsky. Realism. genre painting. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Loyalist Arguments
William Anthony Hay welcomes a fresh assessment of the arguments and methods of Loyalist clergy in the American Revolutionary era.
Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
The small conservative magazine First Things aims to reclaim what has become a dirty word in the Trump era.
Everyone Involved in Harming Migrant Kids Should Be Living in Shame
Writing to representatives won’t be enough. Each individual in the system — including the foot soldiers — has to feel responsible.
Culture War As Class War | Darel E. Paul
The ongoing uproar after the election of Donald Trump led the sociologist James Davison Hunter to . . . .