We live in a dissolving age. Institutions, social forms, and traditional authorities recede. To the extent that they endure, they do so under the sign of choice, often reconfigured as economic or therapeutic projects. Man the entrepreneur and consumer is ascendant—or man the wounded, the victim of . . . . Continue Reading »
Last December, with a push from President-elect Donald Trump, Carrier Corporation decided to retain around eight hundred jobs in Indiana that it had slated to shift to Mexico. Commentators from George Will to James Pethokoukis and the Wall Street Journal criticized the episode as a violation of . . . . Continue Reading »
Some influential books fade as their ideas become conventional wisdom, but Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains as startling as when it appeared in . . . . Continue Reading »
One wishes that the name of Albert Murray needed no introduction. Such is not the case. . . . . Continue Reading »
One year ago, we could not pass a twenty-week abortion ban; now we have a president who is “delivering on his promises”. Continue Reading »
Why are so many inclined to sentimentalize the Russian Revolution, one of the most murderous chapters in human history? Continue Reading »
The Pontifical Academies inviting abortion-promoting overpopulation alarmist Paul Erhlich amounts to formal cooperation in serious evil. And the scandal is not only moral, but scientific. Erhlich is a laughably bad scientist. Continue Reading »
Four books on how to survive, and eventually turn the tide on, today’s culture. Continue Reading »
Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths. Continue Reading »
Transgenderism, rather like abortion, puts the law in a contradictory position on the nature of personhood in our contemporary world. Continue Reading »
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