Defining the Thing

by Dan Hitchens

If we can’t find a word to describe our situation, we have scarcely begun to understand it. Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2018

Medieval Studies and White Supremacy

by Mark Bauerlein

Identity politics seems to be having difficulties in Medieval Studies, perhaps due to the nature of the field.  Continue Reading »

13 Aug 2018

If … Only They Would Read the Poem

by Carl R. Trueman

Postcolonial theory, for all its jargon, is built upon simplistic binaries. Continue Reading »

24 Jul 2018

Political Animals

by Mary Elliot

Our current political problems are rooted in the long and messy history of what makes politics, well, politics. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2017

Liberal Transcendence

by Mark Bauerlein

It’s tough to be a Martin Luther King liberal. All his life he has believed that bias ends when we recognize people as unique individuals, not group representatives. He will talk about groups in big terms, the “black vote” and “equal pay for women,” but he knows that equality comes down to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2016

The Two Minds of Progressivism

by David Azerrad

The contradictions between these two ways of looking at the world, promethean and determinist, are obvious. Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into. Depending on the circumstances, the Left will either deny or affirm the primacy of nature. Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2016

Who Are the Campus Custodians?

by Mark Bauerlein

In this regime that probes people’s minds for hidden assumptions, for biases concealed even from their holders, the custodians have an impossible task. Continue Reading »

8 Sep 2016

Protest and Survive, But How?

by Carl R. Trueman

Only those churches which have a firm and elaborate grasp of the Christian faith are likely to survive in the coming years.
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5 May 2015

A Politics of Denunciation

by R. R. Reno

Political correctness is gelding liberalism, as Jonathan Chait recently observed. A punitive spirit of denunciation haunts pretty much any conversation among liberals. We’ve seen it for a generation in higher education. Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2015

A Fundamental Right to “Personal Recreationism”?

by Wesley J. Smith

Gender dysphoria (transgenderism)—formerly known as gender identity disorder—was once considered a mental illness. Today, the condition—and how individuals and society react to it—is a prominent civil rights issue, the “T” in LGBT. Continue Reading »

23 Jan 2015