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The End of Industrial Society
The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is...
By Samo Burja
Unprecedented
Michael Anton evaluates America's unique and unprecedented position in history, ...
Welcome to the Age of Entropy
"The direction of history here and now, and for the foreseeable future, is neith...
The Origins of Western Civilization
The first part in a free eight-part series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Od...
The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past
Charles Haywood at The Worthy House offers a way out of liberalism, presenting a...
The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
Written during the opening phase of World War II, James Burnham proposed the the...
Daniel McCarthy: National Conservatism in the Early American Republic
Daniel McCarthy's remarks during the "American National Conservatism" panel at t...
By Dan McCarthy
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Why Civilizations Collapse
We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely perus...
By Samo Burja
Christianity, Technology, and Human Flourishing (feat. James Poulos)
James Poulos joins Moment of Truth to discuss his book “Human, Forever,” Chr...
Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought
"With both agriculture and monumental construction much older than what was thou...
By Samo Burja
Religion, Politics, and American Culture: Carl Trueman Talks With Camille Paglia
Author and intellectual Carl Trueman interviews Camille Paglia upon the release ...
Defending Religion: Camille Paglia Big Ideas Lecture
Describing herself as an atheist who defends religion, academic and author, Cami...
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the wor...
By Harold Bloom
Berkeley In The Sixties (Documentary)
In this Oscar-winning documentary, participants in the early years of UC Berkely...
On Conservatism
The American System Can Teach Us to Build Again
America needs to rediscover the art of political economy. Over the past thirty y...
National Conservatism: A Statement Of Principles
A world of independent nations is the only alternative to universalist ideologie...
No to Neoconservatism
"We can’t afford to be isolationists. That would mean letting other nations di...
Propspects for Conservatives: 2022
The challenge, quite apart from which school of thought on the right hopes to pr...
Restoring Faith in the West (feat. Yoram Hazony)
Yoram Hazony joins Moment of Truth to talk about his new book, ‘Conservatism: ...
Taking the Right Off Autopilot
How to rescue a once-vibrant movement that has gone badly off course....
American Conservatism Is Fiddling While Rome Burns
It’s getting trampled all over by History, but while yelling 'Stop!'...
Art and Aesthetics
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
In the final moments of Sir Kenneth Clark's wonderful late 1960s documentary ser...
The Decline of Classical Music in America
"America at its best had really great classical music as a cornerstone of learni...
By Andrew Balio
The Left’s War Against Beauty and Classical Music (feat. Andrew Balio)
Andrew Balio joins Moment of Truth to talk the influence and legacy of classical...
How Did Poland’s Art World Swing Right?
With nearly every museum in the grip of contemptuous Law & Justice loyalists, wh...
By Adam Mazur
How Fear Consumed American Theatre
Broadway now exists to promote ideology, not art....
By David Mamet
Classical Music’s Suicide Pact
"Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera compani...
Distort the Present, Rewrite the Past
Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum...
A Few Classics
John Wayne Speaks to Americans of 2020
An inspiring clip of John Wayne reminding Americans what it's all about....
The Old Man and the Sea
One of Hemingway’s greatest works, the old man and the sea is a parable about ...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution is one of the founding texts of Anglo-Am...
By Edmund Burke
The Prince
In this short tract, Machiavelli offers guidance to the Medicis on how they coul...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is perhaps the most famous piece of American litera...
By Mark Twain
John Quincy Adams’ 1821 Independence Day Address
Then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams used this speech to lay out his vision...
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