Politics
The Second Death of Charlie Kirk
It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person…
The Left Is Right About the Bible
“Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New…
Two Spectacles, Two Frances
The Stade de France, the country’s largest soccer stadium, holds about 80,000 fans. On Friday, September 25,…
Lindsay Clancy and America’s Canadian Future
On September 4, the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, the result of one…
Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in…
Tariffs Won’t Bring Back the Male Breadwinner
Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World…
What Is A Nation?
We think the political world is divvied up into nearly two hundred distinct nations, each with mappable…
Ukraine’s Church in Civilizational Crisis
The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial…
Standing Athwart AI, Yelling Stop
The editors discuss the AfD’s continued victories in Germany, the death of the assisted dying bill in…
The Vatican and Russia
Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s “foreign minister” (Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, to…
The Making of Roger Scruton
Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…
How Britain Escaped Assisted Suicide
In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images…
The German Right’s Golden Moment
In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
Germany’s Illiberal “Liberal” Democracy
Germany finds itself in a strange situation. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is steadily growing in popularity,…
Why the AfD Wins
Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature…
