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April/May 2020

The Old Left Wasn't Very Leftist

By Paul Gottfried

It would be impossible to imagine any shared moral ground between the left that existed in the 1930s and what today presents itself as their intellectual descendants.
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Columns

April/May 2020

Epidemic for the Record Books

By Roger D. McGrath

As the hysterical coronavirus overreaction crashes our economy, I can’t help but think of the Spanish flu, which took some 675,000 American lives in 1918 and 1919.
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Society & Culture

April/May 2020

Faux Originalism

By Mark Pulliam

Is Antonin Scalia’s originalism—indeed, constitutional self-government itself—passé? The eternal temptation to read one’s own values into the Constitution beguiles even religious conservatives espousing natural law.
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Reviews

April/May 2020

Hitler vs. the Anglo-Americans

By Srdja Trifkovic

On April 20, Adolf Hitler turns 131. Ten days later comes the 75th anniversary of his earthly demise in the ruins of Berlin, but he is still our contemporary par excellence. He continues to haunt and fascinate. Hitler’s countenance, his very...
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Remembering the Right

April/May 2020

Remembering Willmoore Kendall

By David Frisk

Among the 20th-century conservative movement’s legendary leaders, Willmoore Kendall (1909-1967) stands out as the one who most effectively offered a grounding in a specifically American philosophy. There is also a timeliness in this remarkable...
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Remembering the Right

April/May 2020

Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.

By Jack Trotter

Two years after the death of the man whom one of his biographers, John Judis, dubbed the patron saint of modern conservatism, Encounter Books brought out a splendidly packaged omnibus volume of his columns and essays, entitled Athwart History:...
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