Three distinct themes wind through all of Mark Bauerlein's episodes: the state of education in America today, Christian intellectual discourse, and the challenge posed by woke hegemony. Continue Reading »
Why isn’t there any publication covering the world of books and publishing from a perspective quite different from that of our ideological masters? Now especially, this would be an indispensable resource. Continue Reading »
More and more students are voting with their feet, declining to go into debt for an education that displaces classical learning with ideology. Divinity schools, especially those that profess orthodoxy, should know better. Continue Reading »
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow have claimed that Russia’s so-called Special Operation is needed to defend the wider russkiy mir, the “Russian world.” By this term they mean the Orthodoxy-based Russian-language civilization that Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus . . . . Continue Reading »
The West has adopted aspects of the old Kremlin mentality. Continue Reading »
The currency of moral, political, and social philosophy, as well as other forms of abstract theorizing, is ideas. They deal not with reality as such, but with representations and explanations of it, and often with recommendations as to how reality should be arranged. Continue Reading »
Natural justice matters; but it matters only inasmuch as it participates in the supernatural justice of the kingdom of God. Continue Reading »
The increasingly dominant view at woke liberal arts schools is that all white heterosexual males are the same. 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 »
Only a philosophically coherent account of the American common good will save us from our descent into ideological incoherence.
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