Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
While We’re At It
♦ After surveying the support for Hamas at elite universities and the fecklessness of academic leaders, Dan Hitchens…
Notes on the Sexual Revolution
We often think that the guiding principle of the sexual revolution was sexual freedom. This view is…
Shipwrecked by Our Betters
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a sober observer of America’s dysfunctional political culture. In his regular column…
While We’re At It
♦ John Rose was a junior fellow during our halcyon early days, a period that I refer to…
Alone in the Godless World
The more modern, the more alone.” The formulation is David Goodhew’s as he outlines the results of…
Loss of Reality
As our society “decultures,” our outlooks become more mechanical. John Henry Newman recognized that the most important…
The Upside of Risk
It is forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit and sweat is dripping down my back. My goggles are steamed up…
While We’re At It
♦ Pope Francis generates pronouncements—and, more often than not, denunciations—like a verbal semi-automatic weapon. Years ago I learned…
Male and Female
In Galatians 3:28, St. Paul affirms our unity in Christ. As the Revised Standard Version translates: “There…
Free Markets and Freedom
My thoughts above emphasize our anchoring loves. Nurturing these loves is a signal imperative, for they give…
Nature Is Our Sister, Not Our Mother
Just a few weeks ago, I spoke at the annual convention of the G. K. Chesterton Society.…
While We’re At It
♦ One of the New Testament words for “freedom” is eleutheria. It appears in St. Paul’s formulation: “It…
Whither Conservatism
We’re living at the end of an era. That reality hit me while I listened to a…
The Wimps of Summer
When I dip into life’s memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of October 9,…
While We’re At It
♦ Tish Harrison Warren documents the changing character of American Christianity, which is as profoundly affected by immigration-driven…
