Three distinct themes wind through all of Mark Bauerlein's episodes: the state of education in America today, Christian intellectual discourse, and the challenge posed by woke hegemony. Continue Reading »
The Christian vision of reality requires that we reject both our culture’s false surrender to algorithms and attempts at self-creation. Continue Reading »
This year, France’s presidential election is being fought almost entirely on the terrain of national identity. Not on the question of who is best suited to govern France, but on the question of what France even is to begin with. So much public discourse circles on the same questions: Are we . . . . Continue Reading »
At root, Gen Z’s obsession with identity is a perverted but genuine pursuit of truth in a world that obscures it. Continue Reading »
Frank Furedi joins the podcast to discuss his new book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialization. Continue Reading »
As Christianity goes in eclipse, liberal citizenship is giving way to our primordial instincts. Continue Reading »
Mark Edmundson joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy. Continue Reading »
Theodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence that was not—and likely cannot be—obliterated in people like André Hébert when they lose the will to enter into communion with the traditional means of attaining . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »
Trip chaperones of an eighth-grade Notre Dame Academy class decided to leave a showing of The Nutcracker last month, after discovering that the on-stage parents of Clara would be portrayed as same-sex married. Continue Reading »
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