The Story of the Comfort Women

by Mark Bauerlein

J. Mark Ramseyer joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Comfort Women Hoax. Continue Reading »

29 Apr 2024

Idealistic Nihilism

by R. R. Reno

We live in paradoxical times. Over the last two generations, college students, especially at top-ranking universities, have been educated to believe that there is no transcendence. Human beings are a bundle of instincts, they’re told, or software in meat hardware, or some other reductive . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

Rooting Out the Weeds

by Megan Basham

First Things remains relevant by focusing on the eternal, not the fashionable. It is not merely conservative, but sound.  Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2023

Paradise in Savannah

by Mark Bauerlein

I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

Culture of Fragility

by Simone M. Sepe

I bear a moral responsibility to uphold the truth and potentially disturb the comfort of those around me. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

A Message for Humanities PhDs

by Mark Bauerlein

These classical schools are happy places. Humanities departments in higher ed are not.  Continue Reading »

27 Feb 2023

Why Are Universities So Ugly?

by Niall Gooch

Grandeur and beauty in interior decoration helps to give a sense of institutional authority and self-confidence in the face of demands from activist students intoxicated by What’s Happening Right Now. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2022

A Tradition of Anti-Traditionalists

by Mark Bauerlein

What this bias in academia has produced is two generations of college teachers who don’t realize their bias. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2022

Institutional Temptation

by Eric C. Smith and Andrew T. Walker

Any Christian institution that seeks to influence the commanding heights of elite culture while at the same time maintaining fidelity to its confession must beware of this temptation. Continue Reading »

20 Oct 2022

The Cancellation of Dr. Nassif

by Carl R. Trueman

Dr. Bradley Nassif’s reasoned, orthodox views on marriage and human sexuality have cost him his career at North Park University, an institution formally connected to the theologically conservative Evangelical Covenant Church. Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2022