John Henry Newman's Prophetic Vision

by Mark Bauerlein

Matthew Levering joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Newman on Doctrinal Corruption. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2023

Russell A. Berman on the State of Emergency

by R. R. Reno

Russell A. Berman joins the podcast to talk about his article from the June/July 2022 print edition, “State of Emergency,” which discusses the natural fragility of democracy and the threat that government emergency powers can pose. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2022

How Legalized Bribery Stole Your Freedom

by Mark Bauerlein

Philip Hamburger joins the conversation to discuss his new book, Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power and Freedom. Continue Reading »

10 Feb 2022

Impersonal Responsibility

by Philip Jeffery

How are we to assign responsibility for the opioid epidemic? Patrick Radden Keefe—the New Yorker staff writer who in 2017 wrote a lengthy profile of the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma—offers an easy answer in his new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

Nothing But Muck

by Robert Goldberg

Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politicsby Suzanne GarmentRandom House, 335 pages, $23 At the end of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway sums up the inner lives of the rich and self-absorbed Tom and Daisy Buchanan and their indifference to the pain and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1992