Wight Martindale Jr.

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April 14, 2025

Utopia is a Bad Idea

Wight Martindale Jr.

Wight Martindale, Jr. says that John T. Farrell’s The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination “is a brilliant, exhaustive, and challenging study” demonstrating......

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October 24, 2022

Why Americans Destroy Their Own History

Wight Martindale Jr.

Wight Martindale, Jr., observes that America’s unique character and idiomatic birth make it susceptible to forgetting its history.

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December 27, 2021

Wrath: A Brief Reader Review

Wight Martindale Jr.

Wight Martindale finds that Peter Wood’s new book Wrath: America Enraged is as much about patience as passionate indignation.

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March 11, 2020

What Rush Limbaugh Has Done For America

Wight Martindale Jr.

A discussion of the New Left’s hypocrisy, particularly concerning the nexus of higher education, wealth, and class.

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