Attack on the Supreme Court

by R. R. Reno

A leak of this magnitude is an effort to subvert the Court’s procedure and norms, and a far greater threat to republican governance than anything carried out by the Trump administration. Continue Reading »

3 May 2022

Ensnared in the Web

by Michael Toscano

About ten years ago, I acquired a deep suspicion of smartphones and social media. Riding a late-night L Train back to my Brooklyn apartment, I looked up from my book and observed about a dozen fellow riders, all in their twenties or early thirties, all hunched over, the blue light of their handhelds . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2022

Abortion

by R. R. Reno

New York Times columnist Charles Blow fulminated recently that those who fail to cleave to late-model progressivism aim at “the subjugation of all who challenge the white racist patriarchy.” No surprise there. Blow has made a career out of outrage. Yet a prominent analogy in his column, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

How Journalism Became Elite Employment

by Mark Bauerlein

Batya Ungar-Sargon joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2022

Elite Grifters

by Julius Krein

Few of the 9.9 percent would sacrifice anything for an ideology—but a great many hope to raise money on one. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2022

Letters

by Various

Nobody could accuse Scott Yenor of pulling his punches in “Sexual Counter-Revolution” (November 2021). His particular brand of reactionary conservatism is shared by many on the right in our moment. The general view of these conservatives is that the sexual revolution of the past fifty years is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2022

Protestants Can't Be Apolitical

by Mark Bauerlein

Ben Dunson joins the podcast to discuss Protestantism in American politics and his website, American Reformer. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2021

Crisis of Legitimacy

by R. R. Reno

People talk a lot about polarization. It is true that polling shows a growing partisan divide. But our rancorous political atmosphere is a symptom, not the cause. We are polarized because the credibility of our ruling class has eroded. A trustworthy establishment anchors society and brings stability . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

Impersonal Responsibility

by Philip Jeffery

How are we to assign responsibility for the opioid epidemic? Patrick Radden Keefe—the New Yorker staff writer who in 2017 wrote a lengthy profile of the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma—offers an easy answer in his new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

Victor Davis Hanson on a Dying America

by Mark Bauerlein

Victor Davis Hanson joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. Continue Reading »

11 Nov 2021