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

Roger Scruton, Heretic

by Mark Bauerlein

Fisher Derderian joins the podcast to discuss the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation and Scruton's collection of essays, Confessions of a Heretic.  Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2021

The Contradictions of
Liberal Globalism

by John William Sullivan

Our globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2019

Undoing the Demos

by Darel E. Paul

Globalists:  The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by quinn slobodian harvard, 400 pages, $35 On April 15, 1994, in Marrakesh, ­Morocco, representatives of 124 countries signed an agreement ­effecting the greatest legal and institutional reform of the world economy in history. The . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

Fences and Neighbors

by Gilbert Meilaender and Peter C. Meilaender

In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the ­Areopagus, St. Paul speaks of the providential ordering of God as including different nations, each having its particular boundaries. God “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Postliberal Theology

by R. R. Reno

Blood pressure is rising. Folks are worried about “illiberalism.” In a November issue of the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum warned of a rising “neo-Bolshevism” assailing the West: “Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Jaroslaw Kacyniski.” Others have more . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

Exit Neoliberalism

by Jude Russo

In Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, social leftism, direct democracy, and financial capital are victorious over the dark forces of nationalism and economic-political inequality. Continue Reading »

2 Nov 2017

Babel and Brexit

by Shalom Carmy

Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered several vices that justified their punishment: A tower intended to reach heaven manifests the ambition to challenge God, the desire to “make for ourselves a name” expresses the sin of pride, and so . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Never Mind Le Pen and Macron

by John Rogove

The real story of the French presidential race was the rise of the leftwing candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Continue Reading »

15 May 2017

The Nationalism Muddle

by Pete Spiliakos

There are similarities between the post-nationalist left and the conventionally nationalist right, but they don’t have to do with globalism. They have to do with meritocracy. Continue Reading »

11 May 2017