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• Claremont Review of Books2026-09-27✓ Read

  Fall 2026 Correspondence

  Who Failed Schools? I appreciate Mark Bauerlein’s fair-minded summation of my findings in The Cradle of Citizenship (“Saving Civics,” Summer 2026). He and I agree on the failures of progressive pedagogy and the merits of classical schooling. We differ over the relative responsibility of the Left and the Right for the grim state of

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• Onward and Upward2026-09-27✓ Read

  ‘Good Czar, Bad Boyars,’ &c

  On Trump and the GOP; Mamdani and the Left; the pen of Winston Churchill; and more

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• Athenaeum Book Club2026-09-27✓ Read

  Our Next Session on The City of God

  Books 19 & 22

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• The Culturist2026-09-26✓ Read

  Will AI Make Us More or Less Human?

  How to use it without losing your humanity

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• Sean Berube2026-09-26✓ Read

  Dostoevsky’s Positively Good Man

  The problem of becoming Christ-like in a world of suffering and sin

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• Literaturcafe.de2026-09-26✓ Read

  Bachmann-Preis: Philipp Tingler wettert im SPIEGEL gegen Insa Wilke

  Gleich vier Jury-Mitglieder des Bachmann-Preises traten zurück, weil sie mit der heimlichen ORF-Entscheidung nicht einverstanden waren, Insa Wilke als Jury-Vorsitzende zurückzuholen. In einem Interview mit dem SPIEGEL nennt Ex-Juror Philipp Tingler nun weitere Details. Die Rückkehr Insa Wilkes bezeichnet er als »skurril«. Hier klicken und weiterlesen: »Bachmann-Preis: Philipp Tingler wettert im SPIEGEL gegen Insa Wilke« >

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• Athenaeum Book Club2026-09-25Audio✓ Read

  The Real Meaning of Dracula

  Podcast Ep. 21 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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• The Golden Thread2026-09-25✓ Read

  The Revival of Dialectic, 1000-1200 – Part 2

  by Allen C. Guelzo

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• NNeues von literaturkritik.de2026-09-25✓ Read

  Krimi, Campus Novel, Reisebuch oder Businessliteratur?

  Herbert Küppers multigenerischer Roman „Ungarische Tänze“ bringt Spannung in einem viel diskutierten politischen Kontext Rezension von Walter Grünzweig zu Herbert Küpper: Ungarische Tänze tredition, Ahrensburg 2025

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• The Culturist2026-09-24Audio✓ Read

  Book Club Recap: The Idiot

  Session 1 of 3 (Part I)

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• The European Review of Books2026-09-24✓ Read

  Gone woke

  Sitting at the border of Oostende’s North Sea coast is a Napoleon-era hippodrome – normally home to horses and 90’s nostalgia bands from the surrounding Flemish countryside – except for one weekend in September, when the hippodrome is transformed into a bipolar festival: half party, half socialist thought exchange. ManiFiesta has been balancing that tightrope for quite

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• The European Review of Books2026-09-24✓ Read

  Interview with Sofia Wadensjö Karén

  Across Europe radical voices are growing and cultivated in bubbles. Left, right, surprising new populist combinations: public broadcasters try to guard neutrality amidst this playfield. In Sweden, no less exposed to the fragmentation of society, elections just took place. We asked the Program Director of Swedish national radio how she covered elections in this climate.

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• NNeues von literaturkritik.de2026-09-24✓ Read

  Mit seinen Alemannischen Gedichten und Kalendergeschichten bereicherte Johann Peter Hebel die deutsche Literatur

  Sein 200. Todestag wird durch zahlreiche Neuerscheinungen und Neuausgaben geehrt Sammelrezension von Manfred Orlick zu Büchern von Guido Bee, Kevin Drews, Uwe Hauser, Johann P. Hebel, Andreas Lang, Bernhard Stricker, Thomas Weiß

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• Sean Berube2026-09-23✓ Read

  Faust, the Devil, and Why Modern Life Feels Empty

  Why Striving Alone Can’t Fill the Void in Your Soul

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• Onward and Upward2026-09-23✓ Read

  Nixon, and Buckley, in China

  When President Nixon made his historic trip to China in 1972, William F. Buckley Jr. went along—but only in the physical sense. There are lessons for today.

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• Close Readings2026-09-23Audio✓ Read

  Nature in Crisis: ‘The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right’ by Alex Roberts and Sam Moore

  ‘The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right’ is a different kind of book from the others Meehan and Peter have discussed so far in their series, even as their focus has shifted from biology to society. Its authors, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, are both anti-fascist researchers writing explicitly from the activist left. Unlike commentators such as Mark Lilla, who worry about ‘vilification inflation’, Moore and Roberts make the case for the continuing salience of the word fascism.

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• The Book Club2026-09-23Audio✓ Read

  John Sellars: Stoicism Is Not What You Think

  Listen to John Sellars: Stoicism Is Not What You Think from The Book Club.

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• NNeues von literaturkritik.de2026-09-23✓ Read

  Variationen der Niederlage

  Mit „Der stets verlorene Kampf“ verabschiedet sich Michel Houellebecq (fast) vollständig vom Widerstand Rezension von Leon Schött zu Michel Houellebecq: Der stets verlorene Kampf. Gedichte DuMont Buchverlag, Köln 2026

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• NNeues von literaturkritik.de2026-09-23✓ Read

  Zelt als Fehdehandschuh

  Annette Mingels‘ vorzüglicher Roman „Evas Tochter“ seziert acht Frauen Rezension von Peter Mohr zu Annette Mingels: Evas Tochter. Roman Penguin Verlag, München 2026

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• Ascend - The Great Books Podcast2026-09-22Audio✓ Read

  Bartleby, the Scrivener by Melville

  Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, we end Short Story September with “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Melville – a seemingly simple tale about men in a law office that becomes a puzzling, existential tale. Dcn. Garlick is joined by two excellent guests: Mr. Joey Bremer, a teacher at Holy

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