A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
by John WilsonThe purpose of this column is to suggest books (some from 2022, some published earlier) that might appeal to various people on your Christmas gift list. Continue Reading »
Willmoore Kendall’s Prescient Ken
by Mark BauerleinDaniel McCarthy joins the podcast to discuss his foreword in Willmoore Kendall's newly re-published book, The Conservative Affirmation. Continue Reading »
Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City
by Mark BauerleinPhillip James Dodd joins the podcast to discuss his new book, An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City. Continue Reading »
The Decade of Misremembering
by Jacob PhillipsChuck Klosterman's new book shows how the emergence of the internet has altered our cultural remembrance of the '90s. Continue Reading »
History for the Kids
by Mark BauerleinBill McClay joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Young Reader's Edition to Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. Continue Reading »
Myths and their Makers
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Adrienne Mayor joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities. Continue Reading »
Our Forgotten Language
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Hana Videen joins the podcast to discuss her new book, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English. Continue Reading »
Nigel Biggar on Defending American Empire
by R. R. RenoNigel Biggar joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2022 issue, “A Christian Defense of American Empire.” Continue Reading »
Spare the Truth, Spoil the Child
by M. D. AeschlimanAfter a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction. Continue Reading »
The New Medievalism
by John DugganNot very long ago, an eminent British editor tweeted an article from his own publication showing (he said) that “in the Middle Ages, some 100,000 women over Europe were burned, hanged, drowned, or put to death in other ingenious ways on suspicion of being witches.” “Three centuries of . . . . Continue Reading »
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