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November 2014

Virgil Thomson: assessing the critic

by James F. Penrose

On the sharp-tongued music critic of the 1940s.

February 2007

Orwell’s “Catalonia” revisited

by Anthony Daniels

On reexamining George Orwell’s classic tale of the Spanish Civil War.

October 1998

Rousseau & the origins of liberalism

by Roger Scruton

The second in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism.”

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