Author Archives: Bradley J. Birzer
Viva Margaret Atwood!
The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is no statist ideologue.
I Once Lived in Hawkins, Indiana
Stranger Things provides a rush of nostalgia for children of the ’80s.
X or King?
Two sides of the American republican tradition.
Prophet of Community
To Russell Kirk, sociologist Robert Nisbet represented one of the finest conservative minds of the twentieth century.
Biography and the Art of Being Human
The historian cannot reduce his subject to a set of facts. He must get to know the man.
The Mormon King of Lake Michigan
J.J. Strang was stranger than fiction.
A Fearless Millennial at Fox News
Pundit Kat Timpf is both tenacious and principled.
The Mencken of Feminism
Why conservatives should give two cheers for Camille Paglia
How Socialism Fails
James Otteson dissects the moral and economic contradictions of collectivism.
Seven Conservative Minds
Russell Kirk’s revisions trace the right’s evolution—and his own.
On the Road to Serfdom Again
Has the right learned Hayek’s lesson any better than the left?
Making Modernity Human
Can Christian humanism redeem an age of ideology?
The Celtic Mind
How Adam Smith and Edmund Burke saved civilization
Christian Epic
C.S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile, A.T. Reyes, ed., Yale University Press, 256 pages
Evil Empire
The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, Tom Engelhardt, …
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