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There has been much talk in the blogosphere lately about the “Benedict Option.” Under the name of this phrase—itself originating with Alasdair MacIntyre—Rod Dreher explores the possibility of...

We conservatives are and should be suspicious of the modern distinction between rights and duties. Both words seem too modern, too abstract, too detached from the realities of a particular person...

There is a telling moment early in Thomas More’s Utopia when the traveler Raphael Hythloday—who will soon claim to have visited the Island of Utopia—recounts meeting a group of foreign sailors...

In 1848, English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, writing of English history since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, confidently proclaimed English history was “eminently the history physical, of...