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  • James Bowman, writing in The New Criterion, on the waves of hysteria provoked by Rick Santorum's social conservatism, worth quoting at length: John Nichols, blogging for The Nation, wrote that Mr. Santorum “has no qualms about rewriting the Constitution as a social-conservative manifesto.” Whether or not he would have any qualms, he would not, even as president, have any power

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  • The point has been made very often by now, but this is a particularly good and compact instance, from the unsigned "Notes & Comments" column in the May issue of The New Criterion: Épater la bourgeois: shocking the middle class has been a cherished goal of the avant garde since the birth of the movement in the

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  • Sunday Night Journal — February 20, 2011 The January issue of The New Criterion includes a symposium called “The Anglosphere and the future of liberty.” It’s been on my mind a good deal since the issue arrived some weeks ago. “The Anglosphere,” in case you haven’t encountered the term, refers to the English-speaking world, to

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