Virtue vs. Virtue-Signaling
by James HankinsBeing elite now means holding a particular set of ideas, not a set of virtues. Virtue is signaled, not acquired. Continue Reading »
Infinite Hitlers
by Sam KrissIn 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought about the final victory in Europe, South America was something more like a police operation—in fact, the conquest of the country was led not by the Wehrmacht, but by a Hauptsturmführer of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Virtue of Obedience
by Charles J. ChaputMemory is the soil out of which the present and future grow. Continue Reading »
The Making of Christian England
by Francis YoungThe leaders of Anglo-Saxon England perished on the field of Hastings, but their legacy is everywhere. Continue Reading »
Learning, Reading, Understanding
by Mark BauerleinDavid George Moore joins the podcast to discuss his recent book Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians. Continue Reading »
Age of Enchantment
by Timothy JacobsonThough I was on the verge of growing up, the Civil War Centennial revealed to me the reality of the past; it enchanted me, and wove a spell.
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Solemn Bromides
by John WilsonThe historical overview offered by Elcott et al. is inadequate and misleading. Continue Reading »
Adeline
by Stephen BlackwoodIt is not a matter of returning to the past but of consecrating the present. Continue Reading »
History Never Ended
by Nathan PinkoskiIs liberalism giving way to something new? The most notable contemporary case for postliberalism, Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, has four tacit assumptions: First, America is in decline. Second, liberalism is responsible for this decline. Third, liberalism is collapsing under the . . . . Continue Reading »
John Finnis Is Right
by Josh CraddockLegal conservatives and originalists should adjust their views in response to the clear and convincing historical evidence of constitutional personhood. Continue Reading »
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