Michael Barone on the Geography of Our Nation
by Mark BauerleinMichael Barone joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mental Maps of the Founders. Continue Reading »
The Synod on Synodality at the Halfway Point
by George WeigelOver the past three weeks, it has become obvious that Synod-2023 is largely an assembly of Church professionals, and a narrow band of Church professionals at that. Continue Reading »
Prohibition Revisited
by Darel E. PaulHoward Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States aspired to be a full-spectrum telling of American history as one long sordid tale of oppression and the resistance to it. Dedicated to a merciless critique of all authority and power, the book extolled and romanticized the victims, . . . . Continue Reading »
When Colonialism Was Good
by Mark BauerleinBruce Gilley joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire. Continue Reading »
How To Believe In Astrology
by Sam KrissDoes anyone believe in astrology anymore? Is there anyone who still really thinks that our destinies are written in the sky? The answer is probably no. Maybe there’s some ancient black-clad Armenian peasant woman consulting an almanac every time she crosses the street—but for everyone else, . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Colonialism
by Francis X. MaierHostility toward the Electoral College hints at a deeper impatience with our political process. Continue Reading »
Can the West Find Forgiveness?
by John WatersThe result of mass migration will not be civilization’s enhancement, but its destruction. Continue Reading »
A Loving Ambivalence
by Helen AndrewsIt is tempting to think of Las Casas as a voice crying in the wilderness, but in fact his campaign of denunciation brought him worldly success and the favor of the establishment. Continue Reading »
Fanon’s Warning
by John WatersAlienation and Freedom by frantz fanon edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young translated by steven corcoran bloomsbury academic, 816 pages, $29.95 In the ferment of the present moment, with its surging floods of migrants and its ostensibly gratuitous but historically . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic America
by Stefan McDanielContinental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America by kevin starr ignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP) Edward Wilson an insolent question: “We Italians, we got our families . . . . Continue Reading »
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