Kinless and Lonely
by Mark BauerleinIn this episode, Kay Hymowitz joins Mark to discuss the loneliness epidemic in America. Continue Reading »
The Rot in Our Ruling Class
by R. R. RenoThe recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio put an exclamation mark on the social decomposition of the United States. Continue Reading »
Taleb’s Call to Duel
by Joshua P. HochschildTaleb has called the racialist behavioral geneticists to the field. Continue Reading »
Calling Joe Biden to Repentance
by Ed CondonSupporting abortion isn't about legal freedom; it is about professing the Democratic faith. Continue Reading »
The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis
by Peter J. LeithartThe Epistle of James, as understood within its first-century context, is still relevant today. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousImmigration Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, which was lately set forth in Matthew Schmitz’s “Immigration Idealism” (May), famously relegates Jesus’s social teaching to the realm of the ideal rather than the possible. Schmitz’s endorsement of this realism makes a mistake that . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Socialist Moment
by Helen AndrewsThe Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by bhaskar sunkara basic, 288 pages, $28 In the spring of 2019, even the staid old AFL-CIO began to dabble in guillotine imagery. The occasion was a dispute between Delta and the International Association of . . . . Continue Reading »
Word for Word
by Paul V. MankowskiThe Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by robert alter norton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in exile at Rheims published an English version of the New Testament prefaced by a lengthy explanation and defence of their rendering, which, they said, accorded with the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »
Chaucer’s Divine Seriousness
by John V. FlemingChaucer: A European Life marion turner princeton, 624 pages, $39.95 Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s is of a rare ambition and competence. Its method is geographical, even topographical, approaching the poet’s life by way of the extraordinarily disparate places . . . . Continue Reading »
Alice McDermott’s Dying Breed
by Shalom CarmyWe often blame the unfavorable treatment of traditional religion in contemporary art on animus or ignorance. Sometimes that’s an accurate assessment. But we underestimate how devilishly difficult it is to depict devout, God-centered characters convincingly, without making them plastic saints or . . . . Continue Reading »
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