The Great Tradition patiently endures, ready to speak on its own behalf, ready to challenge narrow prejudices, ready to examine those with the courage to be interrogated by it, ready to teach those who are willing to be made unfit for the modern world...
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U.S. foreign policy needs to be put back into a constitutional framework, even at a time of grave threats to national security and to American lives and property...
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords readers the opportunity to join Richard Gamble as he examines President...
There is something more dangerous than secularism, and that is a nation-state masquerading as God incarnate...
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion, by David Gelernter (Doubleday, 2007)
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address has achieved a status as American Scripture equaled only by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Washington’s Farewell Address. In merely 271 words, the wartime president fused his epoch’s most powerful and disruptive tendencies—nationalism,...
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1852 novel, The Blithedale Romance, has been overshadowed for many years by The Scarlett Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Perhaps its unsparing analysis of the psychology of utopian reformers still strikes a little too close...
Illustration by Michael Hogue
The old kept us out of conflict; the new leads to empire.
In 1765, John Adams unwittingly penned one of the proof texts of American exceptionalism....
The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State (2d expanded ed.) by Claes G. Ryn. National Humanities Institute, 2011.
Near the end of his Reflections...
On December 4, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson sailed to the Paris Peace Conference aboard the U.S.S. George Washington, a passenger liner seized from Germany at the start of the war. Having promised to "make the world itself...
