In September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »
In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones(“The Problem with the Culture Problem”). Nowhere is the falsity more evident than in the question that will define the coming decade: Should we emphasize consumption or work? Our answer will have . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Eberstadt discusses her latest book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. Continue Reading »
The case for American nationalism is clear. The United States is the most diverse nation on earth. If we will not have a nation and its constitution, then we will have anarchy. If we will not have a nation and its constitution, we will have Hobbesian war, figuratively or literally. What, after all, . . . . Continue Reading »
The loosening of sexual mores in the ’60s had its victims. Continue Reading »
Joseph Ratzinger looks at the abuse phenomenon through the lens of his own life experience. Continue Reading »
The impeachment of Bill Clinton was a matter of defending the rule of law. Continue Reading »
We seem to have lost our capacity to think and speak about “LGBT identity” without capitulating to it. Continue Reading »
I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the famous Haight-Ashbury district. It gave me a front-row seat at the beginning of what we now refer to as the sexual revolution. I watched as the young women around me gave in to the onslaught. It was only later . . . . Continue Reading »
Featuring Michael Hanby on philosophy and the sexual revolution. Continue Reading »
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