Identity Politics and the Election
by Joshua MitchellBeyond the election itself, the question of the future of the American regime remains unsettled. Continue Reading »
The Season of Our Discontent
by R. R. RenoWe’re all on edge. Only this morning, two of my neighbors were bickering in the lobby of our building. I was saddened but not surprised by the acrimony. The virus makes us anxious about our health and that of those we love. Public health measures put civic life on hold. Many of our cities are . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Marcusan Moment
by Carl R. TruemanIf critical theory in its demolition of the past can often degenerate into an ideological justification of ingratitude, then Marcuse was both its pioneer and its poster boy. Continue Reading »
The Metaphysics of Bostock
by David S. CrawfordBostock’s metaphysical assumptions will further undermine the “binary” character of sex, as they have for the larger “gender identity” movement. Continue Reading »
A Godless Great Awakening
by Joshua MitchellIdentity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »
A Dark Cloud For Democracy
by Carl R. TruemanBritain's news headlines are not dominated by events in its most recently ceded colony but by domestic protests about police violence in Minneapolis. Continue Reading »
Queer Times
by Carl R. TruemanThe LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIn September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousTheodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence that was not—and likely cannot be—obliterated in people like André Hébert when they lose the will to enter into communion with the traditional means of attaining . . . . Continue Reading »
More Than Our Appetites
by J. D. FlynnFr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »
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