Stephen Hawking,
Surprised by Joy?

by Charlotte Allen

Is it “ableist” and offensive to wish someone free from the constraints of a physical disability? Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2018

Permission to Kill

by R. R. Reno

Our first reaction is a benumbed sadness. Seventeen dead in a Florida school, shot by a disturbed young man. Then we search for explanations. The killer suffers from mental illness. Like so many others, he is from a broken home. Guns are too readily available. The media frenzy makes the shooter into . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Raw Stuff

by Jude Russo

The End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes defend their power in the name of freedom and progress. The end of the family wage is the classic example: A great feminist triumph, it “freed” women to swell the labor force, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

BDS Has Failed

by Eugene Korn

I am a rabbi who is often asked how to improve Christian relations with Jews. I’m grateful that so many are concerned with continuing the positive changes of the recent generation. But I also follow the ups and downs of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which since 2004, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

City of the Chosen

by Dominic Green

Welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138! We’re a college town, home to Harvard, MIT, and a very large branch of Whole Foods. We’re one of the most “liberal” cities in the country, and our coffee mugs bear the slogan “02138: The World’s Most Opinionated Zip Code,” but all our opinions . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

The Ignoble Lie

by Patrick J. Deneen

During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth—what he calls “a noble lie”—to ensure its success. The myth has two parts. The first relates that every person in the city comes from the same mother, and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Economics as Ideology

by Richard Spady

Economics can serve as an ideo­logy. But it can be something other than an ideology. It can be a social science, for instance, most immediately concerning things about money, and extending to the calculus of social and cultural exchanges where notions of benefit and utility operate. Economics is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Battle for Europe

by ​Ryszard Legutko

Byliśmy głupi by marcin król czerwone i czarne, 256 pages, zł 39.90 Pravým okem: Antologie současného polského politického myšlení edited by maciej ruczaj and maciej szymanowski centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 203 pages, kč 249 Resistance to Communism in Eastern Europe was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

The “Medical Conscience” Civil Rights Movement

by Wesley J. Smith

If you believe protecting medical conscience is an important civil rights issue, join in supporting the Declaration in Support of Conscientious Objection in Health Care. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2018

The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

Humanities professors have forgotten the first principle of undergraduate study in the humanities: inspiration.  Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2018