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.
Voice of Civilization
Algis Valiunas
Like Herodotus, Thucydides, Montaigne, and Proust, Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was a one-book wonder.
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Claremont Review of Books - Fall 2016 issue / December 21, 2016
Shakespeare’s Savior
Algis Valiunas
Henry Folger made it his life’s work to gather up scattered British treasure and bring it to America for conservation.
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Philanthropy magazine - Winter 2016 issue / January 8, 2016
The Man Who Loved Hitler
Algis Valiunas
A new biography of Josef Goebbels depicts a man consumed by personal ambition, the fate of German culture, and the raving hatred propagated by his master.
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Commentary Magazine - June 2015 issue / June 10, 2015
A Seventh Note
Algis Valiunas
A new book on the siege of Leningrad does valuable service to the city’s years of supreme ordeal and the famous tribute by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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The Weekly Standard - May 4, 2015 issue / April 30, 2015
King of Pain
Algis Valiunas
Just about everyone who pays any attention at all to contemporary fiction knows two things about David Foster Wallace (1962-2008):…
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Claremont Review of Books / March 5, 2012
Mastering the Master
Algis Valiunas
The Peloponnesian War is renowned, and notorious, as the most momentous and destructive conflict of the classical Greek world, surpassing…
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Commentary magazine, November 2009 / November 1, 2009
Starlight in Hell
Algis Valiunas
One cannot say with assurance that Russia has outdone all other modern nations in cruelty; the competition is just too…
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First Things, June/July 2009 / June 8, 2009