Ramona Tausz

An interview with Carl Trueman about The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Continue Reading »

Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie of mostly Catholic writers,” or report on the “network of Catholic intellectuals” making “the case against liberalism.” “Mostly these new traditionalists are . . . . Continue Reading »

South Dakota's House of Representatives will vote today on a bill that would prohibit doctors from providing gender transition surgery, puberty-blockers, or hormone therapy to children under 16.  Continue Reading »

“Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in 1986 of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). “If I wanted to say just one thing I would hire a billboard.” In the thirty-three years since, she seems to have changed her mind. Handmaid contained few maxims, but its newly . . . . Continue Reading »

Adam Gopnik is the New Yorker columnist notorious for comparing the post-9/11 scent of death in lower Manhattan to that of “smoked mozzarella.” His ­editor, David Remnick, has been forced to defend Gopnik’s myopic interest in “bourgeois pleasures.” Now, as cultural institutions . . . . Continue Reading »

If the founders referred government to a specific conception of good, then Drag Queen Story Hours cannot be defended by purported “viewpoint neutrality.” 
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Contra French, drag queen story hours are not all that small.  Continue Reading »

“The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus, “is, in largest part, the work of living well.” Continue Reading »

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by caroline fraser metropolitan, 640 pages, $35 The Little House Books by laura ingalls wilder edited by caroline fraser library of america,  1,490 pages, $75 In 1937, during one of the few public appearances of her career, a . . . . Continue Reading »

In all her time on the throne, Elizabeth II has rarely permitted her personality to overshadow her office.  Continue Reading »