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Dec 27, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Catesby Leigh
During the Covid-ridden summer of 2020, amid widespread vandalization of public monuments triggered by George Floyd’s killing, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It would feature honorific statues of eminent Americans from varied walks of life.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Will Collins |Catesby Leigh
Architecture
When Suburbia Was Weird
A modernist enclave in the nation’s capital celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Geography, not design, is the main determinant of housing prices in the Washington, DC, suburbs. A garish McMansion in the leafy inner ring will fetch far more than a charming bungalow out by Harper’s Ferry. If suburban Northern Virginia has an architectural signifier, it’s a faux-colonial style that vaguely evokes the region’s fading Southern character.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Catesby Leigh
Sabin Howard’s engrossing 38-figure, high-relief sculpture—the centerpiece of Washington’s new National World War I Memorial, situated on Pennsylvania Avenue just east of the White House and Treasury Department—takes a cinematic approach to sculptural narrative. It commemorates a civilization-transforming conflict in which 116,516 Americans were killed and 204,000 wounded.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan |Catesby Leigh
Earlier this summer, I visited the Saudi Arabian embassy on the one day it is open to the public. The Saudis are solicitous hosts, if a bit obsequious. As soon as I entered the main building in Foggy Bottom, I was greeted by two men, one carrying a brass carafe filled with coffee, the other bearing a plate piled high with dates. I accepted both gifts, and from a massive television screen a giant Mohammed bin Salman beamed down at me, all smiles and hospitality.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Anastasia Kaliabakos |Rod Dreher |Catesby Leigh
Classics
A Requiem for Classics
A small liberal arts school in Massachusetts is the latest domino to fall in the attack against the Western tradition.
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May 4, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Catesby Leigh |Dennis Hale |Allen C. Guelzo |John J. DiIulio
Our nation faces a daunting cultural challenge: to enhance the architectural value of the world we build. In recent decades the American city, where our civilization symbolizes itself in the highest degree, has been steadily degraded by cultural and educational institutions, government agencies, and real estate developers, all determined to erect “iconic” fashion statements. They do so by hiring self-regarding, theory-addled architects, who see their brief as reifying an ever-mutating Zeitgeist.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Christopher Flannery |Catesby Leigh |Steven Hayward |Charles Kesler
Abraham Lincoln delivered versions of a “Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions” in several places in 1858 and 1859. That Lincoln was thinking through the ideas in this lecture during those fateful years is a remarkable revelation of the range of his preoccupations. And he wasn’t finished thinking about them, though he set them aside to attend to some pressing practical matters.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Catesby Leigh
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Kate Newkirk |Catesby Leigh
The Biden administration, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation (CMMI), recently announced a new model program to address elder care. The program, called GUIDE, funds aging-in-place and community-based programs for the elderly. While this approach is fashionable among activists, it fails to address the needs of many aging Americans. The GUIDE Model overview is long on slogans and short on details.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Sumantra Maitra |Catesby Leigh
It is particularly jarring to go to the gift shop at the Hillwood Museum and Estate, a building dedicated to the art and treasures of the French and Russian nobility, curated and collected by a true-blue American elite, only to find cups and mugs with the faces of Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
