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Is America in irreversible decline? by Conrad Black

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The specter of Chinese civilization by Angelo M. Codevilla

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“Don’t draw the bug!” by Martin Greenberg

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Columbus Day

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Education apocalypse now

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The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle

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Deliberate falsehoods by James Bowman

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Book nooks by Brooke Allen

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Citizens lamed by Wilfred M. McClay

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Culture as counterculture by Adam Kirsch

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A popular form of monomania by Anthony Daniels

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Donald Kagan, 1932–2021 by Paul A. Rahe

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Culture as counterculture by Adam Kirsch

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Is America in irreversible decline? by Conrad Black

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When there were giants: three great classicists by Victor Davis Hanson

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The specter of Chinese civilization by Angelo M. Codevilla

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The case of Harry Houdini by Daniel Mark Epstein

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The audacity of Emily Dickinson by Bruce Bawer

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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball

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The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle

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The triumph of Thomas Sowell by John Steele Gordon

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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball

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