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Classical patricide by Victor Davis Hanson
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Malicious Marcuse by Anthony Daniels
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“An aristocrat in the public square”: José Ortega y Gasset by Mark Falcoff
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Civilization & tradition by Allen C. Guelzo & James Hankins
9 The invented exile of Edward Said by Keith Windschuttle
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The invented exile of Edward Said by Keith Windschuttle
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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