Alexander Riley on Thanksgiving and Civil Religion
by R. R. RenoAlexander Riley and Mark Bauerlein join R. R. Reno to talk about Thanksgiving. Continue Reading »
America’s Search for Social Utopia
by Miles SmithAs Hawthorne knew, the iconoclastic impulse is ultimately ungovernable. In his story and in our own historical moment, the would-be societal purifiers’ appetite for destruction proves to be insatiable. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousRichard Mouw, for twenty years president of Fuller Seminary and still on its faculty, updates us on his thinking about a matter long close to his heart: the disputed neo-Calvinist or Kuyperian doctrine of common grace. Conversational and personal in style, the book has hardly a paragraph without . . . . Continue Reading »
A Sacred Right
by Mark David HallStarr’s book provides an important history of the foundational American ideal of religious liberty and a timely analysis of the current threats to it. Continue Reading »
Pessimism Vindicated
by Michael AntonThe founders would be appalled” is a common sentiment in American politics, expressed mostly by the right. Those on the left, by contrast, are overjoyed at the thought of appalling the founders, whom they accuse of a raft of unforgivable sins, which can be expiated (and even then, only partially) . . . . Continue Reading »
Lincoln’s Almost Chosen People
by Meir Y. SoloveichikIn his wonderful book Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson recalls meeting an immigrant family from Thailand who ran a restaurant in Chicago just a few blocks from the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood where I grew up. This couple, Oscar Esche and his wife, had developed a passionate devotion to . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative Jurisprudence Without Truth
by Hadley ArkesBostock struck at the very root of the law in denying the necessary way in which human beings by nature must be constituted. Continue Reading »
Can Nationalism Unite Us?
by Bradford LittlejohnIn The Case for Nationalism, Rich Lowry argues that America’s strong nationalist tradition should be preserved. Continue Reading »
Sacral Presidency
by Peter J. LeithartWhether they are monarchs or not, powerful leaders take on royalish trappings because politics is ineradicably sacral. Continue Reading »
The True Con
by Matthew SchmitzIn June, an announcer on CBS observed, “George Will is essentially unchanged from the way he looked forty years ago.” He still wears Brooks Brothers. He still parts his hair on the left. And in politics, while lesser men have compromised with the ascendancy of Donald Trump, Will has stayed . . . . Continue Reading »
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