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Who has heard of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch (1880–1957) or his masterpiece The Nazarene, published in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War? The novel’s vision of...

How should colleges educate students? We have wandered a long way from what Michel de Montaigne thought should be the first principles of education. For it seems to me...

The first season of Amazon’s Man in the High Castle promised well. Yes, it departed from Philip K. Dick’s novel, most strikingly by exploring Nazi-occupied America. Yes, it moved...

Three professors involved in Great Books programs at Columbia University—Casey N. Blake, Roosevelt Montás, and Tamara Mann Tweel—have given their answer to this question in Inside Higher Ed, and...

Some time ago a guarantee was given: “That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against...

The conservative intellectuals have failed. Have you heard? Everyone’s saying it. The first thing to remember is that the use of the term “conservative” (as much as the use...

There once was an Englishman named Richard Reynell Bellamy who became a Fascist. He raised his children to love the sort of things a British Fascist loves—the people of...

Last fall I binge-watched all of the first season of Amazon’s television series The Man in the High Castle. The show is good, right from the opening credits. There...

James Stoddard ought to be famous for his Evenmere trilogy—The High House (1998), The False House (2000, revised 2015), and Evenmere (2015). He isn’t, unfortunately. The High House received...