Nate Hochman on Cannabusiness
by R. R. RenoNate Hochman joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October issue, “Cannabusiness Goes to Pot.” Continue Reading »
Paradise Here and Now
by Samira KawashThe resurgent nationalisms of recent decades have been one response to the homogenizing impulses of globalization—but nation is not the solution to homelessness in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane. Continue Reading »
A Lonely Hart
by Gerald McDermottDavid Bentley Hart has never been a man of the Church, devoted to its orthodoxy, dedicated to the emerging wisdom of the Christian community and its Great Tradition. Continue Reading »
Tyranny by Numbers
by John WatersIf a society loses its intuition of the absolute necessity for certain principles and fundamental rights, it will lose the sense and memory of how its own equilibrium has been arrived at, and thereafter descend into chaos. Continue Reading »
Hart’s Turn To Heterodoxy
by Gerald McDermottUniversalism begins with the ancient gnostics, and once embraced by Christians, tends to unravel every major Christian dogma. This powerful tendency helps us understand—if not explain—Hart’s fall into Hindu metaphysics and gnostic theology.
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Given for Love
by Victor Lee AustinDespite its flaws, Louise Penny’s latest novel is ultimately a book of fundamental human goodness. It encourages us to look at a child, as happens at a significant New Year’s Eve moment, and not see “Down syndrome,” but a person with a name—a person given for us to love. Continue Reading »
The Church in the Immanent Frame
by Brad EastModernity is both an epoch and an ideology. We have to live in the epoch; we don't have to accept the ideology, even for a moment. Continue Reading »
Philosophy Perfected by Christ
by Robert P. ImbelliFor postmodern thinkers, Christianity’s scandal of particularity proves an insurmountable stumbling block. The eternal God’s unique incarnation in Jesus Christ is absorbed and neutered either in the name of the System or of the Non-System—both equally totalitarian. Continue Reading »
A Tom Wolfe for the 2020s
by Peter J. LeithartThe Index of Self-Destructive Acts is the Big New York Book of the 2020s, as Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities was for the 1980s. Continue Reading »
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