Tradition and Fertility in Eastern Europe

by Lyman Stone

After more than a decade as a demographic laggard, eastern Europe is having a slight “baby boom.” Continue Reading »

2 May 2019

Truth-Telling and Big Abortion

by George Weigel

The pro-choice movement has thrived because of its extraordinary ability to mask what it’s really about. Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Letters

by Various

liberal politesse R. R. Reno’s point in “The Civility Trap” (March) is well-taken: Nobody on the wrong side of contemporary liberalism, either to its right or left, would likely disagree that the expectation of civility masks exercises in raw power. Manners aren’t simply politic, in other . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Made for Love

by R. R. Reno

In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was The Bostonians, serialized in a magazine in 1885 and then published in a single volume in 1886. The novel features activist meetings, conversations sprinkled with references to the cause of women’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Mayor Pete’s Woke Intolerance

by Nic Rowan

Pete Buttigieg preaches a limited vision of the Christian life.  Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2019

After Trump, Le Déluge

by Oren Cass

The future shape of American conservatism is not confined to what came before Trump and what Trump himself represents. Continue Reading »

29 Apr 2019

Britain's Identity Crisis

by John William Sullivan

An enormous political realignment is afoot, sidelining Britain’s cosmopolitan and liberal elite Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2019

YouTube Revolution

by John Waters

YouTube has become a sanctuary for those pushed out of culture. Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

Specter of the Beatitudes

by Eve Tushnet

Workers’ Tales:  Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain edited by michael rosen princeton, 328 pages, $19.95 When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the Fairies Went on Strike. This 1981 confection by Linda Briskin and Maureen FitzGerald, with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

A Certain Idea of France

by Peter Hitchens

De Gaulle by julian jackson harvard, 928 pages, $39.95 Using pick handles and rifle butts, the police force of one of the world’s most civilized countries surrounded and savagely beat hundreds of dark-skinned men. They then threw them into the beautiful river that flows through a city celebrated . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019