A City Isn’t a City Without the Church
by Peter J. LeithartGod is necessary to prevent civilization from becoming soulless and settling for lifeless bureaucratic or technological substitutes. Continue Reading »
Some Things I Hate
by John WilsonThere is a danger in dwelling on our hates, yet there is also utility in articulating them. Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis, Eamon Duffy, and the Medieval Spirit
by John DugganThe medieval outlook on life and the cosmos still has contributions for the modern age. Continue Reading »
The People’s Justice
by Mark BauerleinAmul Thapar joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousLiel Leibovitz’s article “Fight Together, Win Together” (December 2023) is a stirring encapsulation of the dark side, so to speak, of intersectionality’s ideological ascendancy within western academic institutions. Two questions stand out to me after reading the piece. Several groups of . . . . Continue Reading »
Joan of Arc, Gender Theorist
by Dan HitchensWhen the nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was told she would be burned at the stake, she reacted with horror—not for the reasons you or I might give, but on more mysterious grounds. According to the Dominican friar Jean Toutmouillé, who visited her at the prison in Rouen on the morning of May . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Christian Nation
by Josh HawleyChristopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals prominent in his own day—T. S. Eliot called him “the most powerful intellectual influence in England”—but mostly overlooked in ours. Which is the usual treatment posterity gives . . . . Continue Reading »
Israel at War
by Shalom CarmyIn reading this intelligent, useful, and timely book, I was reminded of the challenges I and some of my fellow students encountered back in the Vietnam era. Our intention was to get invited to various synagogues where we could present Jewish law perspectives on the morality and practice of war. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Reactionary Hope
by Mary HarringtonWithin mainstream modern liberal feminism—especially as filtered through America’s bitterly polarized culture wars—to be feminist is self-evidently to be left-wing. Admittedly, one need not dig very deep among “anti-feminist” writers to find individuals who seem to dislike women. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ambitious Nihilism
by Inez StepmanThe Palo Alto suicides started in 2002, when Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto High School class of 2007 and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, must have been in middle school. I, a year ahead in the class of 2006, was adjusting to the awkward realities of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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