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Conservatism’s Mexican Roots March 27, 2023
Reflecting on the Revolution in France in his classic 1790 treatise, the Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher Edmund Burke wrote that “whenever our neighbor’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.” More t...
Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene April 17, 2019
Delve into the books of the Mexican writer and musician Julián Herbert and how obedient — how chaste — so much contemporary nonfiction can suddenly seem in comparison. Does Herbert write memoirs? Essays? Novels? His books are mash-ups of memory, inve...
