Dreams of Progress Meet
Ethnic Cleansing

by Dan Hitchens

Having once put such hopes in Burma, the world has lost interest. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2018

Letters

by Various

ECONOMISM Richard Spady’s article “Economics as Ideology” (April) has some excellent insights. Spady argues that economics functions as an ideology when it imposes its rigid anthropology—dominated by a simplistic, utility-maximizing mythology of the individual—on the material it . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

The Smell of Death

by R. R. Reno

Liberalism has created a world in which disordered souls kill themselves with drugs and alcohol—and in which those harboring murderous thoughts feel free to act upon them. Continue Reading »

31 May 2018

Capitalism vs. Tradition in Italy

by Alessandra Bocchi

In Italy, liberal orthodoxy is being challenged in the name of tradition. Continue Reading »

18 May 2018

America and Liberalism

by R. R. Reno

The American experiment.” I cringed whenever Richard John Neuhaus used that formulation. We live in a country, not an experiment. I seek to purify my soul so that I may be worthy of citizenship in the City of God. But in this temporal frame, I have never wanted to be anything other than an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2018

Liberalism as a Virtue

by Hallam Willis

Congratulations to Hallam Willis for winning first place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is his response to prompt #1. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2018

Liberal Integralism

by R. R. Reno

A Catholic politics never seeks to be a sacred politics, never proposes a full and complete integration of statecraft with soulcraft. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2018

Utopian Temptation

by Timothy Fuller

Why Liberalism Failedby patrick j. deneenyale, 248 pages, $30 Patrick Deneen asserts that liberalism has failed. He also asserts (in a recent article) that “the exceedingly narrow victory of Donald Trump may be understood as the last gasp of a dying conservatism that has been destroyed by American . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

Illiberal Democracy

by Kyle Harper

Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practiceby josiah obercambridge, 222 pages, $24.90 Liberal democracy is a modern synthesis. Liberalism—a respect for human or natural rights; limits on the scope and power of public authority; state neutrality on fundamental questions of, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

Postliberal Theology

by R. R. Reno

Blood pressure is rising. Folks are worried about “illiberalism.” In a November issue of the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum warned of a rising “neo-Bolshevism” assailing the West: “Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Jaroslaw Kacyniski.” Others have more . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018