It was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat. More than eighty years ago, Biden reminded us, Franklin Roosevelt rallied the nation, as “Hitler was on the march,” and “freedom and democracy were under assault.” Today, the president warned, . . . . Continue Reading »
No doubt globalization has had adverse consequences for some Americans; it has also helped lift as many as two billion people out of abject poverty. Continue Reading »
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Philip Pilkington to talk about his article, “The Dead End of the New Left,” from the December 2022 issue. Continue Reading »
Marc Morano joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown. Continue Reading »
What is it like to be a billionaire? I can imagine what it’s like to be a millionaire. I live in London, where millionaires are never very distant. A few of the people I went to school with are millionaires already, and in another decade or so, more of them will be. Millionaires are people who . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s about a quarter to ten at night on August 17, 2019, and I’m standing outside the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, smiling. It’s one of those Edinburgh Festival nights when the streets are still crowded but there’s already a foretaste of autumn in the air, a warning chill in the sea breezes that . . . . Continue Reading »
The machine will allegedly elevate humans according to values different from those of nature—a Superman. Where have we heard that before? Continue Reading »
In 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. With this document, the Church sought to address “the whole of humanity.” In a way, this aspiration was not surprising. Christian doctrine holds that Christ died for the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Ur-Bororo are the most boring people in the world. Their entire population, which is not large, lives in “dwelling sheds,” rectangular clapboard houses in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Other jungle tribes tend to decorate their bodies with elaborate tattoos, lip plugs, or ritual . . . . Continue Reading »
Bruce Gilley joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire. Continue Reading »
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