Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Burden
by John WatersThe Irish political system and media have refused to provide any form of opposition, so increasingly perturbed citizens have had to step into the breach. Continue Reading »
Irish Politics Plays Musical Chairs
by John WatersIreland is in cultural, social, and economic meltdown, and nobody seems willing to do things that might reverse this dissolution. Continue Reading »
Inherited Merit
by Audrey PollnowThe system hasn’t failed; it has succeeded too well. Patrick Deneen said this about liberalism. Now Daniel Markovits is saying it about meritocracy. Markovits, a professor of law at Yale, argues that a system that once promoted social mobility has created a self-perpetuating class of elites. His . . . . Continue Reading »
Identity as Ideology
by Theodore DalrympleLike many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, utopianism would die out in the Western world. I was mistaken. Identity politics in the West is veering in the direction of totalitarianism. A book I read . . . . Continue Reading »
Thirty Years at First Things
by R. R. RenoThis is our 300th number, marking thirty years of publication. In early 1989, Richard John Neuhaus had no inkling that he was about to found First Things. A Lutheran pastor noted for his incisive religious and political commentaries, he was busy running the Center on Religion and Society. The Center . . . . Continue Reading »
Goodbye to the European Union
by Peter HitchensI hoped that Britain would leave the E.U. as part of a counter-revolution against all the errors of the past fifty years—and that this would involve the destruction of the British “Conservative” Party. Continue Reading »
Before the 2020 Presidentiad Begins in Earnest . . .
by George WeigelEffective leadership at the highest political level demands not only wit and wisdom but dramatic craft that rises above demagogy. Continue Reading »
The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement
by Jennifer BilekThe LGBT rights agenda has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Continue Reading »
The Strain on the British Monarchy
by Peter HitchensThe monarch, stripped of all ancient direct power, is now remarkably like the king on a chessboard—almost incapable of offensive action, but preventing others from occupying a crucial square. Continue Reading »
The End of Pseudo-Liberalism
by John WatersPseudo-liberalism seeks to turn upside-down the value system of the civilization that once was Christendom. Continue Reading »
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