The Honor Deficit

by James Hankins

The decline of meritocratic standards in American universities, and the rise of identity-based admissions, is leading to an honor deficit that might well spell the end of elite education. Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2022

The Identity Crisis of Modern Adolescents

by Mark Bauerlein

Frank Furedi joins the podcast to discuss his new book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialization. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2022

The Politics of Scapegoating

by Joshua Mitchell

As Christianity goes in eclipse, liberal citizenship is giving way to our primordial instincts. Continue Reading »

21 Dec 2021

A New Segregation?

by Mark Bauerlein

The new wave of identity politics is a consequence of the eradication of a conservative ethos from American life.  Continue Reading »

7 May 2021

Identity Politics, Opium of the People

by Carl R. Trueman

Identity politics witnesses to the social disconnection that results from the metaphysical void at the heart of modern Western society. Continue Reading »

29 Apr 2021

Woke Religion

by James F. Keating

We Americans tell our history in light of our awakenings, those periodic spasms of panic over the spiritual debts we have piled up against God as well as flesh and bone. This is what the summer’s racial unrest was: a mass attempt to expiate centuries of guilt. If we were purely corporeal beings, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2021

Many Out of One?

by Carl R. Trueman

Columbia University is presenting a vision of a nation that might be better characterized by the motto Ex uno plures. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2021

Identity Politics and the Election

by Joshua Mitchell

Beyond the election itself, the question of the future of the American regime remains unsettled. Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2020

The Season of Our Discontent

by R. R. Reno

We’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 »

1 Nov 2020

Our Marcusan Moment

by Carl R. Trueman

If 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 »

16 Jul 2020