Arts & Letters

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No Optimism, Much Hope

George Weigel

While history is always full of surprises, including happy ones, I must confess that I’m not full…

Grander and Weirder

Sam Kriss

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityby david graeber and david wengrowfarrar, straus and giroux, 730…

Antifascists after Fascism

Stanley G. Payne

Antifascism: The Course of a Crusadeby paul gottfriednorthern illinois university, 216 pages, $34.95 When questioned by reporters…

Christmas by Dickensian Decree

Algis Valiunas

There are holy days of sobering solemnity when one is meant to reflect on the sadness of…

Sacred Order in Social Order

Bruce Riley Ashford

Last Best Hope:America in Crisis and Renewalby george packerfarrar, straus and giroux, 240 pages, $27 Many Americans…

What We’re For

R. R. Reno

Transgenderism bad. Woke revolution bad. Cancel culture bad. We know what we’re against. But what are we…

Two Cheers for Utopia

Peter J. Leithart

Don’t immanentize the eschaton” has been a conservative axiom since William F. Buckley popularized it in the…

A Proper Christian Burial

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Tim Perry joins the podcast…

It’s Not All In Your Head

Sam Kriss

Leave Society by tao lin vintage, 368 pages, $16 The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery…

The Irreligious Right

Nathan Pinkoski

A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Rightby matthew roseyale, 208 pages, $28 In a series…

Jordan Peterson and God

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christopher Kaczor joins the podcast…

The Decline and Fall of America?

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Joseph Johnston joins the podcast…

Inclusivity at Notre Dame

W. Joseph DeReuil

Colleges today urge students to be inclusive of all people, opinions, and choices. But at a Catholic…

The Heart of the Good Life

George Cardinal Pell

Faith’s Place:Democracy in a Religious Worldby bryan s. turner and damien freemanconnor court publishing, 244 pages, $40…

Serial Thinking

John Wilson

It aggravates me mightily that if ten random test-subjects were shown the word “serial” as a prompt…