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When I was in graduate school, I had the good fortune to hear Eric Hobsbawm lecture on nationalism. The year was 1992. Hobsbawm had just published his widely read and sharply debated book on the theme, and in the aftermath of the implosion in communist Central and Eastern Europe and the revival of the so-called captive nations, everyone wanted to hear his take on the subject. The following is a condensed version of "Culture Forms Our Common Life" by David C. Rose, published at Law & Liberty.In 1993 Douglass North won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in economic history. He stressed the importance of institutions—regularized patterns of behavior—for improving our understanding of how societies evolve and function.Reality Is Just a Game Now. Jon Askonas The New Atlantis July 22, 2022. Diego González. On the recent twentieth anniversary of 9/11, I reflected on how I would tell my children about that day when they are older. 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After its major-label release in 2007, the song oozed out of teenage bedrooms and …By Daniel J. Mahoney. June 29, 2021. Rare is the book that speaks to the moment with intelligence, verve, and moral purpose while highlighting, and reinforcing, enduring insights that have been all but forgotten. Such is Red, White, and Black (Emancipation Books, 2021), whose feisty subtitle, “Rescuing American History From Revisionists and ...In the first RealClear Books & Culture Symposium, Rachel Lu, Emina Melonic, and Elizabeth Grace Matthew review Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.' Feminism Needs Religion by ElizaJan 9, 2024 · In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition, just published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul challenge this forced severing of modern liberty from a venerable tradition of conservative humanism that grounds and elevates human freedom. In comes R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, a novel about a white author who feels insecure over Asian women and tries to be one. The narrator, novelist June Hayward, is a liberal white woman, the likes of which dominate the literary world. However, she is unsuccessful in the industry, unlike her best friend, acclaimed author and Kuang’s self …A Conservative Liberal. Jennifer Burns’s biography, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, will be the standard reference for anyone wanting to dive deeply into the life of the great economist and the world in which he flourished. The historical context that Burns provides makes the book almost as much a work of post-1929 economic and ...By RealClearBooks. January 30, 2023. Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. 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