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 »
Columbia University is presenting a vision of a nation that might be better characterized by the motto Ex uno plures. Continue Reading »
Beyond the election itself, the question of the future of the American regime remains unsettled. Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
Bostock’s metaphysical assumptions will further undermine the “binary” character of sex, as they have for the larger “gender identity” movement. Continue Reading »
Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »
Britain'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 »
The LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »
In 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 »
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