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Dec 29, 2025
Tolkien fought at the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served in WWII. “It is no wonder, then, that some of the most striking images in the novels of Tolkien and Lewis...
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Nov 20, 2025
Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres presents Demosthenes, alongside Cicero, as basic to education in rhetoric and humanism. His speeches before the...
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Jul 30, 2025
Anthony Kronman is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale, and his latest book, True Conservatism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age, offers a fresh conservative theory....
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May 12, 2025
In 1939, the Oxford historian, Sir Ronald Syme, celebrated Cicero for his “enduring influence upon the course of all European civilization.” In the cinematic version of...
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Mar 19, 2025
“There's nothing in "The Lord of the Rings" except that it's a foundation of one's feeling for trees, flowers and England generally.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien planned to...
Dec 29, 2025Tolkien fought at the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served in WWII. “It is no wonder, then, that some of the most striking images in the novels of Tolkien and Lewis...
Nov 20, 2025Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres presents Demosthenes, alongside Cicero, as basic to education in rhetoric and humanism. His speeches before the...
May 12, 2025In 1939, the Oxford historian, Sir Ronald Syme, celebrated Cicero for his “enduring influence upon the course of all European civilization.” In the cinematic version of...