The American Past Distorted and Degraded

by Mark Bauerlein

Jonathan Barth joins the podcast to discuss “The Study of American History in Our Universities.”  Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2024

Marlene Dietrich’s War on Nature

by John Byron Kuhner

Marlene Dietrich's life is a parable about growing old and being famous.  Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2024

A City Isn’t a City Without the Church

by Peter J. Leithart

God is necessary to prevent civilization from becoming soulless and settling for lifeless bureaucratic or technological substitutes. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2024

Some Things I Hate

by John Wilson

There is a danger in dwelling on our hates, yet there is also utility in articulating them. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2024

C. S. Lewis, Eamon Duffy, and the Medieval Spirit

by John Duggan

The medieval outlook on life and the cosmos still has contributions for the modern age. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

The People’s Justice

by Mark Bauerlein

Amul Thapar joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

Letters

by Various

Liel 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 »

1 Feb 2024

Joan of Arc, Gender Theorist

by Dan Hitchens

When 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 »

1 Feb 2024

Consolations of Middle Age

by Elizabeth C. Corey

This past June I attended my daughter’s high school graduation. Observing the wrinkles, gray hair, and softening jawlines of the other parents, I concluded that most people weren’t aging well. A few mothers, hoping to escape these indignities, had been victims of aggressive plastic surgeons, but . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024

Our Christian Nation

by Josh Hawley

Christopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals prominent in his own day—T. S. Eliot called him “the most powerful intellectual influence in England”—but mostly overlooked in ours. Which is the usual treatment posterity gives . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2024