Brexit Did not Cause Brexit
by Carl R. TruemanBrexit is a symptom, not a cause, of Britain's polarization. Continue Reading »
The Brexit Mudslide
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Dominic Green on the aftermath of Brexit. Continue Reading »
Britain's Identity Crisis
by John William SullivanAn enormous political realignment is afoot, sidelining Britain’s cosmopolitan and liberal elite Continue Reading »
The Future of Brexit
by Sumantra MaitraThe ultimate choice of British policymakers is to decide under which future order they want to operate. Continue Reading »
Brexit and Enlightenment Man
by Dan HitchensThe terror and dismay of Remainers have helped to demonstrate the non-existence of Enlightenment Man, the thinker who stands only on logic and waves away every distraction. Continue Reading »
The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?
by John M. HowtingThough drawing the ire of his older colleagues, Euroskeptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a large following among British youth. Continue Reading »
Babel and Brexit
by Shalom CarmyWhy did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered several vices that justified their punishment: A tower intended to reach heaven manifests the ambition to challenge God, the desire to “make for ourselves a name” expresses the sin of pride, and so . . . . Continue Reading »
Politics of Vulnerability
by R. R. RenoI don’t think we’ve fully realized how acute feelings of vulnerability have become in twenty-first-century America. At prestigious universities, young people with every reason to believe they’ll land on the top end of society nevertheless feel threatened, so much so that some call for . . . . Continue Reading »
God and Brexit
by George WeigelWhen biblical religion collapsed, as it manifestly has in most of Old Europe and too much of New Europe after 1989, commitments to subsidiarity and its respect for difference imploded as well. Continue Reading »
Unity and Independence
by David T. KoyzisIf we abandon the peculiarly modern quest for strict equality of treatment, it should be possible for the E.U. to function with its member states unevenly integrated into the whole. Great Britain could remain part of the E.U. while, fully in accordance with subsidiarity, claiming as much independence as it needs and can handle. Continue Reading »
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