The Editors

Pete Spiliakos describes a populist Republican economic agenda : The Republican National Committee is in a cul-de-sac. They see that support for the Republican party is becoming isolated to constituencies that are in relative demographic decline. What the RNC does not see (or chooses not to see) is . . . . Continue Reading »

(From left to right) Matthew Schmitz, deputy editor; Matthew Cantirino, assistant editor; Lauren Wilson, managing editor; David Mills, executive editor; Tristyn Bloom, editorial intern; R.R. Reno, editor; Katherine Infantine, junior fellow; Anna Williams, junior fellow . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on the struggle with intrinsic disorder : I am “intrinsically disordered” when it comes to food, and it doesn’t really matter how I became so. Whether it is due to a genetic pre-disposition, or a habit of psychological buffering—or some combination of nature and . . . . Continue Reading »

R. R. Reno on the future of conservatism : American conservatives need to return to first principles. Tax rates are not irrelevant. Restraining government spending may be good policy (and a fiscal necessity). But our goal is limited government, not limited taxation. The sign of success is a free . . . . Continue Reading »

From our archives, Richard John Neuhaus on the late Joseph Frank’s biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky : Frank is simply wrong when he writes that  Karamazov  is about “the great theme that had preoccupied [Dostoevsky] since  Notes from Underground : the conflict between . . . . Continue Reading »

Timothy George argues that the next pope should be Catholic : As one involved in various church dialogues over the past thirty years, I have come to see the crucial role played by the Bishop of Rome in helping all Christians everywhere to work together for Christian unity. Far more than anything in . . . . Continue Reading »

John Daniel Davidson reviews  Islam and the Arab Awakening : Can a Muslim-majority country, freed from the strictures of dictatorship, bring forth and preserve a democracy that grants equal rights to minorities and women, protects free speech and political dissent, and does not insist on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Edward Feser replies to David Bentley Hart’s article on the natural law : Hart equivocates insofar as he fails to distinguish two very different theories that go under the “natural law” label. He also uses terms like “supernatural” and “metaphysical” as if they . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on religious change in the Middle East : Alarming reports have been coming in for years: Christianity is being expelled from the Middle East. According to Walter Russell Mead, more than half of the Christians in Iraq have fled the country since 2003. Today it’s happening in . . . . Continue Reading »

David Bentley Hart on the natural law : There is a long, rich, varied, and subtle tradition of natural law theory, almost none of which I find especially convincing, but most of which I acknowledge to be—according to the presuppositions of the intellectual world in which it was . . . . Continue Reading »