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Me: A couple of weeks ago, when the Summer Reading extravaganza of the New York Times Book…

Tacitus, the great Roman historian of the first two centuries A.D., disdained the Jews’ conviction that it…

The Italian philosopher Gianteresio (Gianni) Vattimo has gained international renown over the last few decades. Many of…

Sohrab Ahmari’s back-and-forth with David French began when Ahmari objected to a Sacramento public library hosting an…

My train departed from Amsterdam and headed to Warsaw. Or at least, that was the destination of…

Children, children, don’t get old. You’ll find yourself waking up in the middle of the night and…

The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a…

Jessica Hooten Wilson recently commented that because author Marilynne Robinson views all of created life as a…

The Book of Proverbs seems to be a collection of wisdom-bytes, organized in a desultory manner. This…

A crop of center-right commentators offered the pro-life movement some strategy tips last week. Responding to apparent…

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a Catholic girls’ school run by the Salesian Sisters of the Order of…

Me: You said recently—probably on Twitter—that for the last year or so you’ve been reading books in…

As a student at the University of Notre Dame, I have always been taught to try to…

On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a…

Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dreamby carson vaughanlittle a, 266 pages, $24.95 For two decades,…