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Can you be conservative, but not religious? Anne Husted Burleigh, from 2002: modernagejournal.com/toward-a-eucha…

“Christianity is the religious faith that perfectly embraces the conservative ideal.” Anne Husted Burleigh, from 2002: modernagejournal.com/toward-a-eucha…

“In the rare instances when public schools are explicit about character formation, I have found that the traits they codify tend to be vague and insipid.” — @MrDanielBuck @ModAgeJournal modernagejournal.com/classical-scho…

Can another Great Awakening restore faith in marriage? @TracyMehan1 on Timothy S. Goeglein and Craig Osten’s new book: modernagejournal.com/americas-domes…

“Whether it is cause or correlation, the decline of the traditional family arguably led to many of our current troubles.” What to do about it? @TracyMehan1 reviews Timothy S. Goeglein and Craig Osten’s new book on the subject: modernagejournal.com/americas-domes…

Today in the WRB, we feature @juderusso94 reviewing “Megadoc,” a documentary about the making of Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” in @ModAgeJournal. Find links to this and many more of the best recent pieces, here: washingreview.com/p/wrbmar-18-20…

“Brookfield Academy and other schools in the classical movement are not trying to invent a new educational theory so much as to recover an old one: that schooling is for the formation of minds and the cultivation of a life well lived.” From @MrDanielBuck @AEI: modernagejournal.com/classical-scho…

Edmund Burke is known as a political philosopher today, but he was also a master prose stylist. From Dante Germino: modernagejournal.com/edmund-burke-t…

“Brookfield Academy is something far greater than good schooling; it is an outpost of civilization amidst a society that seems bent on deconstructing everything that made it great in the first place.” @MrDanielBuck @AEI on what classical schools get right: modernagejournal.com/classical-scho…

Edmund Burke’s writing is a “vast epical metaphor in defense of civilization.” Peter J. Stanlis on a great Irishman: modernagejournal.com/edmund-burke-t…

James Burnham and George Grant prophesied the downfall of modern liberalism, writes @GeoffRuss3: modernagejournal.com/burnham-and-gr…

“What is Burke’s perennial appeal as a political writer? (1) his conception of society and appeal to history, (2) his basic political principles and methods in practical politics, and (3) his literary genius and supreme mastery of English prose.” Peter J. Stanlis, from 1982: modernagejournal.com/edmund-burke-t…

“There is scant evidence for a common philosophical, social, or political movement” called the Enlightenment. That’s J.C.D. Clark’s argument in his new book @OxUniPress. @NPinkoski reviews it here: modernagejournal.com/the-concept-of…

Happy 275th birthday, James Madison! Dante Germino on his political philosophy, which aimed for unity in diversity: modernagejournal.com/james-madison/…

What if the Enlightenment never even happened? @NPinkoski reviews J.C.D. Clark’s book on the subject @OxUniPress in our latest issue: modernagejournal.com/the-concept-of…

James Madison “saw government’s task to regulate, not to mirror, the interest-group struggle.” From Dante Germino: modernagejournal.com/james-madison/…

James Madison was both a pluralist and an individualist. Dante Germino, from 1983: modernagejournal.com/james-madison/…

Nobody has pointed out that Megalopolis is the movie 8 1/2 is about making.

“Francis Ford Coppola spent four decades and a medium-sized fortune making a movie that he hoped would change the world.” @juderusso94 on Megadoc, a documentary about the making of Megalopolis: modernagejournal.com/the-mind-behin…