
Algis Valiunas
Fellow
Algis Valiunas is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, a journal about the ethical, political, and social implications of modern science technology.
Algis Valiunas is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, a journal about the ethical, political, and social implications of modern science technology.
A literary essayist, his writings have appeared in Commentary, the Weekly Standard, National Review, First Things, the American Spectator, the New Criterion, and the Claremont Review of Books. They have also appeared in various collections, including most recently The Best Spiritual Writing, 2013 (Penguin, 2012). He is also the author of the book Churchill’s Military Histories: A Rhetorical Study (Encounter, 2002). He holds degrees from Dartmouth College; Trinity College, Cambridge; and the University of Chicago, where Saul Bellow was his doctoral dissertation adviser in the Committee on Social Thought.
Why Were They Dropped?
Algis Valiunas

The revisionist historians who cast doubt on why Truman made his fateful decision
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The New Atlantis / May 1, 2023
Nature versus Culture
Algis Valiunas

In America today, a moral chasm exists between those whose bodies and souls yearn for nature in the wild and those who need citified surroundings to feel fully alive.
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National Affairs / April 12, 2023
My Madness
Algis Valiunas

To suffer schizophrenia is to be born again, into a reality stranger and more excruciating than anything you could imagine while sane.
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First Things / January 1, 2023
The Life and Times of Chateaubriand
Algis Valiunas

“Nature has accorded Chateaubriand a sacred fire; his works attest to it. His style is not that of Racine, it is that of the prophet.”
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National Review / December 1, 2022
Taking Aristophanes Seriously
Algis Valiunas

The original gross-out comic.
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Claremont Review of Books / October 12, 2022
Robert Lowell’s Fruitful Agony
Algis Valiunas

The suffering and the artistic gift were of a piece for Lowell, and he bore the suffering manfully for the sake of the poetic grace he was vouchsafed.
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National Review / August 2, 2022
Sickness of the Mind, Triumph of the Soul
Algis Valiunas

Dostoevsky’s prescient diagnoses of the Russian and the human condition have more to teach us now than ever.
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Claremont Review of Books / July 21, 2022
Stalin, the Bloodiest Bookworm
Algis Valiunas

A review of Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts.
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National Review / April 4, 2022
Nihilism for the Ironhearted
Algis Valiunas

Giacomo Leopardi may be the great modern writer least known to an English-speaking readership.
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First Things / March 16, 2022
Christmas by Dickensian Decree
Algis Valiunas

A Christmas Carol has influenced how we view and celebrate Christmas in modern times. But does Dickens know how to keep Christmas well?
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First Things / December 29, 2021