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Disney’s downward path from vague causes to overt ideology

March 22, 2022 Ben Reinhard 28

It has been a lively month at the Walt Disney Company. Late February saw the release of the feature film Turning Red to the dismay of parents who believe that discussion of menstruation, sexualized drawings […]

Books

The complicated story of Catholicism, religious tolerance, and early America

November 30, 2021 James Matthew Wilson 8

For the Catholic Church, America has never been just a nation or a state. It constitutes rather a political and theological problem. That is as much the case now as it has ever been. The […]

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A Debate Deferred: Kirk, Bozell, and the future of the American Right

June 26, 2021 Ben Reinhard 4

The resurgent relevance of Triumph Magazine has been one of the few pleasant developments in American political discourse in the last decade. It is also something of a surprise. During Triumph’s heyday in the 1960s, […]

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Beyond Tenebrae is a robust, winsome defense of Christian humanism

January 21, 2020 Gerald J. Russello 3

The legendary Georgetown professor Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., who died last year, was known for packing an introduction to liberal education in each of his books. He would cover topics from Plato to Peanuts […]

Essay

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

October 19, 2018 Bradley J. Birzer 2

Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on July 31, 2014, and is re-posted to mark the 100th anniversary of Kirk’s birth. Ordinarily Providence works through men and women—through St. Gregory, through St. Joan. Saints […]

The Dispatch

Right by Nature: Russell Kirk, contemporary conservatism and natural law

September 21, 2018 Nathanael Blake 8

American conservatism is in an odd place. Politically it is ascendant, with the ostensibly conservative Republican Party in control of the national government and most of the states. Culturally, it is marginalized, with its opponents […]

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