Chronicles Magazine Book Review

The Old South, the New South, and the Real South

Tom Landess - OCTOBER 03, 2005

In April 1968, the University of Dallas Literature Department hosted an Agrarian reunion. We invited John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Andrew Lytle, and Donald Davidson to come together in several private sessions to discuss the...

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Misinterpreting Iran—and the World
Leon Hadar - OCTOBER 03, 2005
Imagine that, for a few years, you had been investing the money you had saved for your daughter’s college education in one of those moderately conservative plans that provide some increase in the value of the investment without exposing it to...
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Out of Harm’s Way
Paul Gottfried - OCTOBER 03, 2005
In this factually and conceptually rich biography of French political thinker Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987), Daniel J. Mahoney has at least begun the task that he sets for himself in the Preface: performing an “act of intellectual recovery” to...
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Britain’s Liberal Legacy
Derek Turner - OCTOBER 03, 2005
One can easily imagine meeting David Conway in the company of Adam Smith or David Hume—an historical conceit that would please him.
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Lessons From Experience
Thomas Fleming - OCTOBER 03, 2005
Consider these two premises: First, in 1865, the Confederacy is collapsing, and President Davis, concerned about the funds in the treasury, sends a young naval officer out on a wild expedition to hide the gold, to be used some day to help the South.
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Chronicles Magazine Book Review

The Old South, the New South, and the Real South

Misinterpreting Iran—and the World

Out of Harm’s Way

Britain’s Liberal Legacy

Lessons From Experience

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