Bradley J. Birzer

Bradley J. Birzer is The American Conservative’s scholar-at-large. He also holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College and is the author, most recently, of Russell Kirk: American Conservative.

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History

September 30, 2020

Robert Nisbet’s Ten Conditions of Revolution

There are distinct conditions that must be met to achieve a real, true, and lasting revolution. Robert Nisbet succinctly laid out these 10 conditions in his writing.
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Culture

March 18, 2020

The Revival of Socialism

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History

August 26, 2019

The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion

There are a variety of lessons to be drawn from how the Allied governments conducted themselves during World War II. Some of those messages may be more in tune with our current political climate than we care to admit.
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Culture

July 8, 2019

The Roots of Political Correctness

So many politically-correct assumptions have become mainstream that, as Tocqueville once predicted, they have narrowed our ability to question rather than actually give us answers.
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Culture

November 16, 2018

My America, 1620

We all know the story. But in November 2018, we would do well to remember all of this not with mere nostalgia, but with moral intent.
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Economics

November 12, 2018

Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins

Of all the disturbing developments in culture and ideas over the last several years few have been more disturbing than the reemergence of communism and socialism.
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Culture

August 7, 2018

How 'The Abolition of Man' Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age

In the modern world, C.S. Lewis argues in The Abolition of Man, we have trained the head and encouraged the heart, while neglecting the soul, the most important part of the person. As Lewis so scathingly puts it, we are producing men without chests.
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History

April 19, 2018

Imperialism Is Baked into America’s (Progressive) DNA

Our heritage of foreign intervention is a new one, an innovation introduced by the progressives. To imagine a clean and humane progressivism is, simply, a fool’s errand. There is no such thing as a non-racist and non-imperialist progressivism…
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Culture

November 16, 2017

Why Rome's Republic Fell With Cicero

Cicero was the Roman Socrates, a man who stood for the community over time, rather than the community of the moment. Like his Greek ancestor, Cicero died a martyr.
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History

September 21, 2017

When the West Lost the Battle of Ideas

Despite the great successes of the Scottish and Americans in the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century bred the narrowest thought of all.
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Culture

August 2, 2017

The Moral Imagination of Disney’s 'Beauty and the Beast'

As the oldest story in the Christian world, it attests to love, sacrifice, and redemption.
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September 7, 2016

How Livy Predicted the Fall of America

If 21st century Americans remember Livy, it is for his description of Cincinnatus, a republican dictator who headed to the farm
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Culture

July 26, 2016

Is Free Will an Illusion?

The scholarship dealing with free will is outrageously messy.
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History

July 20, 2016

What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong

America's Founding Fathers got a lot right, but they made some mistakes along the way.
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History

July 18, 2016

Surprised (and Saddened) by Joy

'I came away...not only repulsed by her but actually questioning the very judgment and goodness of C.S. Lewis.'
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History

July 13, 2016

J.R.R. Tolkien's Hope for the Modern World

It rested in the idea that God makes nothing in vain, and that Grace perfects fallen nature.
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Education

May 20, 2016

Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

Four times as many people were killed by their own government as were killed in war from 1914-1991.
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Culture

May 12, 2016

Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It

The genre was sneered at for years by those who viewed it as "low-class, childish, and quasi-pornographic."
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Culture

April 21, 2016

A Guide to Dystopian Literature

For almost as long as I have had the privilege of reading, I have read dystopian literature.
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Culture

January 15, 2016

The Dystopia of Orwell’s “1984”

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
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