Chaos in Our Souls

by Mark Bauerlein

RJ Snell joins the podcast to discuss his new book Lost in the Chaos. Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2024

Houellebecq and the Death of Europe

by John Waters

Michel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2019

Myth of Disenchantment

by Peter J. Leithart

Our choice isn’t between “enchanted” religion and “disenchanted” modernity; the choice is more typically among rival enchantments. Continue Reading »

4 May 2018

Return of the Strong Gods

by R. R. Reno

A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: “I am twenty-seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century.” I sympathize. We have reached a series of dead ends in the West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2017

Why We Believe in Fairies

by Stephen R. L. Clark

Everyone—or almost everyone—agrees that there are no such things as fairies nowadays, and probably never were. They seem to belong to the class of mildly amusing, spooky things mentioned in urban fantasies for fun and in antireligious tracts to suggest that believing in God is just as silly. To . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2017

​The Loss of Peace

by R. R. Reno

The title of New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s post-election column was an anguished cry: “America Elects a Bigot.” David Leonhart, another New York Times regular, expressed horror: “We’ve just finished an election that included unprecedented violations of America’s long-held . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2017

Old Havana

by Anthony Kerrigan

. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside streets like sofas reading José Martí behind potted ferns in avenue-knolls paved with Key West grass and long-leaved tobacco shaved and scented like bark strips. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1990