Fusionism—once the intellectual core of American conservatism—today faces a profound crisis. Initially conceived as a harmonious union of liberty and virtue, designed to reconcile free

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If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite so well and thoroughly examined. Even in the midst

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J.C. Scharl is a poet and playwright. Her work has appeared on the BBC and in many poetry journals on both sides of the Atlantic. Her verse play, Sonnez Les Matines, opened in New York City