For a long time, what Alexis de Tocqueville called the American “spirit of freedom” was balanced by settled norms that guided young men and women toward domestic life. These norms added up to a sexual constitution that rested on the foundational assumption that men and women had different and . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
Thomas F. Powers joins the podcast to discuss his book American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime. Continue Reading »
Michael Barone joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mental Maps of the Founders. Continue Reading »
When my wife and I moved away from the Midwest some fifteen years ago, we began an age of perpetual homesickness. I’d tear up at the sight of Notre Dame’s stadium on Saturday football broadcasts, recalling our years in South Bend where I did my graduate studies, only just ended. I watched every . . . . Continue Reading »
For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern decades. The nineties began on 11/9/1989, with the breaching of the Berlin Wall by East Germans—a symbolic repudiation of communism and a glorious American victory in the Cold War. They ended . . . . Continue Reading »
Jamie Glazov joins the podcast to discuss his new book, which he edited, Obama's True Legacy: How He Transformed America. Continue Reading »
One does not need to believe in America. One merely needs to be grateful for her. And I am. Continue Reading »
In effect, the “patriotism” of our current leadership class boils down to the freedom of everyone else to shut up and do what they’re told. Continue Reading »
“Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth,” Percy once observed. “Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.” Continue Reading »
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