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Paul H. Fry on “Freud and Fiction”
Below is the next installment in the lecture series on literary theory and criticism by Paul H. Fry. The previous lectures are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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Review of James Seaton’s “Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism”
This review first appeared here in The University Bookman. Back when I was a pimple-faced graduate student in English and law, I ordered a book from Amazon titled Cultural Conservatism, Political...
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The Classical Liberalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The less government we have, the better.”[1] So declared Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man not usually treated as a classical liberal. Yet this man—the Sage of Concord—held views that cannot be described as...
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Paul H. Fry on “Jacques Lacan in Theory”
Below is the next installment in the lecture series on literary theory and criticism by Paul H. Fry. The previous lectures are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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Review of Damon Root’s “Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S....
This review originally appeared here in the American Spectator. The sounds coming from the echo chamber suggest that Damon Root’s new book Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court...
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“Winston Churchill and the American Civil War,” by Miles Smith IV
Miles Smith IV is a visiting assistant professor at Hillsdale College and a historian of the Old South and Atlantic World. He took his B.A. from the College of Charleston and holds a Ph.D. in History...
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Hayek, Statistics, and Trade-Cycle Theory
This essay first appeared here as a Mises Emerging Scholar article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. Austrian economics is often caricatured and criticized because of its approach, or...
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Paul H. Fry on “Influence”
Below is the next installment in the lecture series on literary theory and criticism by Paul H. Fry. The previous lectures are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,...
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Paul H. Fry on “The Postmodern Psyche”
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Review of “A Late Encounter With the Civil War,” by Michael Kreyling
This review originally appeared here in Southern Literary Review. Now that it’s 2015, the sesquicentennial of the Civil War has come to a close. Those who don’t follow such anniversaries may not have...
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Review of Adam Zamoyski’s Phantom Terror
This review first appeared here in Taki’s Magazine. Born in America and raised in Britain, Adam Zamoyski is not a tenured university professor devoted to obscure subjects that appeal only to audiences...
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Interview with Hubert Crouch
This interview originally appeared in Southern Literary Review. Hubert Crouch AM: Thanks for taking the time to talk to Southern Literary Review about The Word, your second novel. Jace Forman, the...
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Harold Bloom’s American Sublime
This review originally appeared here in the American Conservative. What can be said about Harold Bloom that hasn’t been said already? The Yale professor is a controversial visionary, a polarizing seer...
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Boswell Gets His Due
This review originally appeared here in Liberty. What is Enlightenment? The title of Immanuel Kant’s most famous essay asks that question. Kant suggests that the historical Enlightenment was mankind’s...
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Learning What We Don’t Know
This review originally appeared here in The University Bookman. I begin with a trigger warning. The following review contains references that could evoke strong feelings about the nature and purpose...
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Paul H. Fry on “The Social Permeability of Reader and Text”
Below is the next installment in the lecture series on literary theory and criticism by Paul H. Fry. The previous lectures are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,...
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“A Selected Bibliography on the Political and Legal Thought of Oliver Wendell...
Seth Vannatta is an Associate Professor and Interim Department Head in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University. He earned a PhD in Philosophy at Southern Illinois...
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Atticus Finch: Still a Hero?
Despite blots on his character after Harper Lee’s publication of Go Set a Watchman, Atticus Finch can and probably should remain a hero, though not without qualification. He can no longer represent...
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Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joyce Corrington
Photo by Robert Corrington APM: Joyce, thanks for doing this interview. The last time we did one of these, I suggested that we might do another one day. I’m glad that day is here. I guess if there’s a...
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Balance and Imbalance in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is in many ways about losing balance. Characters like Turton, Fielding, and Mrs. Moore represent centers of gravity, fixed between competing tensions and antagonistic...
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