• A member question on constructive conversations despite disagreements
• Allen Guelzo on where rewriting history goes wrong
• Practical advice for students interested in graduate school

• Allen Guelzo
• The James Madison Program
• 1619 Project
• Dr. Guelzo on the 1619 Project
• Michel Foucault
• The Mending Wall, Robert Frost

• A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn 
• Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, Allen C. Guelzo
• Redeeming the Great Emancipator, Allen C. Guelzo
• Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, Allen C. Guelzo
• Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, Allen C. Guelzo
• Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Allen C. Guelzo
• Reconstruction: A Concise History, Allen C. Guelzo
• 1620, Peter W. Wood
• Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, Wilfred M. McClay
• Modern Europe to 1815, Peter Gay

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 In this episode... 

• A member question on building conservative community amidst cancel culture
• A conversation with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat

 Links: 

• Ross Douthat
• Douthat’s NYT Columns
• Reactions, Ross Douthat’s Substack
• What Is the Future for Conservatism? A Debate
• Europe’s Forgotten Conservative Liberals, Samuel Gregg
• Modern Age
• National Review
• Richard John Neuhaus
• Joan Didion

 Books Mentioned:

• The Decadent Society, Ross Douthat
• Everyday Saints, Archimandrite Tikhon
• What's Wrong with Rights?, Nigel Biggar
• A Humane Economy, Wilhelm Röpke
• A Time to Build, Yuval Levin
• The Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell
• The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 3—Yuval Levin, Formation, Freedom, and the University
 
In this episode . . .

• A member question on the state of conservatism and conservative politics
• A conversation with the 2021 Conservative Book of the Year winner, Yuval Levin

Links: 

• American Enterprise Institute
• Yuval Levin
• “Start with Anthropology,”  Yuval Levin
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Books Mentioned:

• A Time to Build, Yuval Levin
• The Great Debate, Yuval Levin
• The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet
• The Twilight of Authority, Robert Nisbet
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 4— Jeff Polet, Localism, Kirk, and the “Founding”
 
 In this episode... 

• A member question on imaginative literature
• A conversation with political science professor Jeff Polet

 Links: 

• Front Porch Republic
• Russell Kirk Center
• “Did America Have a Founding?”
• Modern Age
• Patrick Deneen at the National Conservatism Conference

 Books mentioned:

• The Fall, Albert Camus
• The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
• Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin 
• American Awakening, Joshua Mitchell
• Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
• The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
• The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
• The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet
• The Present Age, Robert Nisbet
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 3—R. R. Reno and Tim Carney

In this episode . . .

• A member question on whether we’ll see a return to fiscal conservatism 
• A conversation with First Things editor R. R. Reno and AEI Fellow Tim Carney on the future of America and the right

Links:

• Public Discourse: “Toward a New Consensus”
• Barry Goldwater
• Ronald Reagan

Books mentioned:

• Alienated America, Timothy P. Carney
• Return of the Strong Gods, R. R. Reno
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, George H. Nash
• A Time to Build, Yuval Levin
• The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
• The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 1—John A. Burtka IV
 
 In this episode . . . 

• A member question on legislating morality
• James interviews ISI president John A.  Burtka IV

 Relevant Links: 

• Towards a Conservatism of the Heart: A Roadmap for ISI’s Future, John A. Burtka IV
• Learn more about Russell Kirk here!
• Trinity Forum
• The Fund for American Studies
• Frank Chodorov 
• What Conservatism Really Means, Renovatio Podcast, Hamza Yusef and Roger Scruton

 Mentions: 

• First Principles, Thomas Ricks
• The Enduring Tension, Donald Devine
• The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
• Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver
• The Quest for Community,  Robert Nisbet
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, George H. Nash
• The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis
• Why Liberalism Failed,  Patrick Deneen

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 2—William F. Buckley Jr. and Academic Freedom
 
 In this episode . . . 

• A member question on cancel culture and career pursuits
• An interview with William F. Buckley Jr. on Academic Freedom

 Links: 

• Listen to the full Buckley interview

 Books mentioned: 

• What Is Conservatism?, edited by Frank Meyer
• God and Man at Yale, William F. Buckley Jr. 
• Up from Liberalism, William F. Buckley Jr. 

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