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  • Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot

    Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot0

    In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,

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  • Jan Bloch: The man who prophesied World War I

    Jan Bloch: The man who prophesied World War I0

    Looking back on the Great War today, it feels almost inevitable. If a discontented 19-year old Bosnian Serb with the devil’s luck had not managed to put a bullet into the jugular of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a hot summer day in 1914, something else would have triggered the chain of events that resulted

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  • James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture

    James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture0

    In the latest move in what Politico has dubbed the “Nomenclature Wars,” a St. Paul school is considering scrubbing its namesake, President James Monroe, due to his slave-owning past. Matching similar trends around the country, this change is motivated by concern that the school name might not reflect the values of the community. In a

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  • James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for Checks and Balances

    James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for Checks and Balances1

    Fauci’s problem isn’t just with Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle. His problem is with the American system.

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  • James Madison on the Separation of Church and State

    James Madison on the Separation of Church and State1

    It’s not unusual to witness discussions on the topic of whether or not the United States was founded “as a Christian nation.” (Or, worded slightly differently, whether or not America had a Christian founding.) The answer to this question depends largely on semantics. On one hand, the Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian and built a

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  • Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline

    Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline0

    Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was one of the preeminent historians of the 20th century. Valedictorian of the 1920 class at Columbia, where he also received his Ph.D., Barzun wrote extensively on culture and education while serving in professorial and leadership roles at Cambridge and Columbia. His magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence (2000), which traces the

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