The Secret to College Success
by Mark BauerleinIf you are worried about the coming pressures in higher education, then you should be looking to Belmont Abbey College. Continue Reading »
Marlene Dietrich’s War on Nature
by John Byron KuhnerMarlene Dietrich's life is a parable about growing old and being famous. Continue Reading »
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 »
The Mystery of Israel
by Sohrab AhmariThe “mystery of Israel”—that’s what Jacques Maritain called Israel’s endurance as the people of the Old Covenant, its indomitable insistence on Jewish particularity over and against the universal claims of Christianity. Through the ages it has been a source of both legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
Captain Bob
by Casey ChalkOn the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of champagne with a card from the sellers affixed. They congratulated us on our purchase—a fixer-upper with a jungle of a backyard—and told us how much they had loved the neighborhood. “And be sure to make . . . . 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 »
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