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Serious writing in an age that’s made peace with mediocrity.

On American life, sport, politics, and the permanent things worth defending.

Recent Work

The Velvet Scammer’s Trap

Jack Callahan examines how a failed biotech CEO now lectures patriots about what makes America real.

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Projecting Power, Abandoning Home

How Washington's military ambitions leave Forgotten Americans behind

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R.I.P. Lenny Wilkens

The "dragonslayer" of the hardwood

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Serious writing in an age that’s made peace with mediocrity.

On American life, sport, politics, and the permanent things worth defending.

Books

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The High Lonesome Review

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About

Brian D. O’Leary writes on sports, politics, history and American culture. His work focuses on the ideas and institutions that endure, and the habits that keep them alive.

This site is home to his essays, the O’Leary Letter, The High Lonesome Review, and future books from O’Leary & Co.

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