“And Jepthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine...
Intercollegiate Review
Providing college students with the best of intellectual conservatism by exploring the ideas and principles behind conservative philosophy, politics, and economics.
Being a Good Old Gadfly: I Can’t Take It Anymore
“I am that gadfly that God has attached to the state, and all day long …arousing and persuading and reproaching…You...
A Tea Party Thomist: Charles Carroll
The moral case for economic freedom didn’t emerge ex nihilo in the various Enlightenments. It was already part and...
Going Green: How to Recycle a Prayer
“Pride in craftsmanship is well explained by saying that to labor is to pray, for conscientious effort to realize an ideal...
High School Reading Becoming Simpler: Surprised?
We’ve all heard it—life is far easier now than “back in the day” when our grandparents were young. I admit, those...
Democracy in Amtrak: Meeting Junior Tocquevilles
Sitting in the observatory car of the Empire Builder, I alternated between reading a novel and glancing out of the giant...
What Marriage Is . . . and What It Isn’t
In a 5–4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Writing for the...
Lionel Trilling’s mental gestures
Lionel Trilling, one of the finest brains behind Columbia University’s Great Books program, is, unfortunately, probably...
Prof. George Carey, Rest in Peace
ISI mourns the loss of George W. Carey, one of the foremost interpreters of the American political tradition and a...
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