The Constitutional Fidelity of Loving and Dobbs

by David R. Upham

Like Loving, Dobbs is a recovery and vindication of our republic—a great victory for constitutional truth, justice, and the American way. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2023

1619 Rightly Understood

by Wilfred M. McClay

One of the most important things to be said about the New York Times’ loud but intellectually threadbare effort to recast the year 1619 as the date of the American nation’s “true founding” is that it was a missed opportunity. The year 2019, which was the four hundredth anniversary of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Baptizing the Status Quo, Then and Now

by Carl R. Trueman

Progressive Christians are replicating one of the oldest ecclesiastical sins of all—conformity to the world, just like their slaveholding ancestors. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2023

Haiti's Catholic Hero

by M. D. Aeschliman

Toussaint L’Ouverture was not a Jacobin revolutionary. He was a Catholic, whose view of universal human dignity was drawn from the heart of the gospel itself. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2023

A Slave Revolt and Biblical Reasons

by Mark Bauerlein

Jeremy Schipper joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial. Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2022

Abortion

by R. R. Reno

New York Times columnist Charles Blow fulminated recently that those who fail to cleave to late-model progressivism aim at “the subjugation of all who challenge the white racist patriarchy.” No surprise there. Blow has made a career out of outrage. Yet a prominent analogy in his column, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

Mark Bauerlein on the Legacy of Lincoln

by R. R. Reno

Mark Bauerlein joins R. R. Reno to discuss the complicated legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2021

A Fictional (and True) Lincoln

by Mark Bauerlein

John Cribb joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Old Abe: A Novel. Continue Reading »

4 Nov 2021

Sarah Josepha Hale: Intellectual, Editor, Mother

by Mark Bauerlein

Melanie Kirkpatrick joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2021

Judging the Sins of Our Fathers

by Carl R. Trueman

The slavery of colonial and antebellum America was tragic but there is nothing we can do to change that history. The present is a different matter. That is our responsibility. 
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9 Sep 2021