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September 02, 2010

Intercollegiate Review Archive

Volume 39, Number 1-2
Fall 2003/Spring 2004

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Symposium: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Essays

Reviews

  • The Metaphor as Wrecking Ball, a review of Hamburger’s Separation of Church and State
    Cory L. Andrews
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  • A Providential Constitution?, a review of Brownson’s The American Republic
    Ralph C. Hancock
    PDF
  • Liberal Conservatism, Not Conservative Liberalism, a review of Scruton’s The Meaning of Conservatism
    Peter Augustine Lawler
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  • The (Mis-)Measure of Intellectual Culture, a review of Posner’s Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline
    Mark Molesky
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Backcover:

I recall very sharply how, in the autumn in 1939, as I was driving on afternoon across the monotonous prairies of Texas to begin my third year in this post, it came to me like a revelation that… I did not have to go on professing the clichés of liberalism, which were becoming meaningless to me. I saw that my opinions had been formed out of a timorous regard for what was supposed to be intellectually respectable, and that I had always been looking over my shoulder to find out what certain others, whose concern with truth I was beginning to believe to be not very intense, were doing or thinking. It is a great experience to wake up at a critical juncture to the fact that one does have a free will, and that giving up the worship of false idols is a quite practicable proceeding.
—Richard M. Weaver


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