After the End of Sacrifice
by Peter J. LeithartProtestants can offer a fundamental challenge to liberal order only insofar as we retain, and enhance, the sacrificial dimension of classical Protestantism. Continue Reading »
Liberalism Against the Church
by Gladden J. PappinThe Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by helena rosenblatt princeton, 368 pages, $35 Liberalism, says Helena Rosenblatt, has grown ineffective as it has forgotten the role that public morality, virtue, and conceptions of the common good played in its . . . . Continue Reading »
The Contradictions of Liberal Globalism
by John William SullivanOur globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »
Lincoln Lost, Douglas Won
by Allen C. GuelzoEveryone on that hot, dusty August afternoon in 1858 in the square at Ottawa, Illinois, knew who one of the men on the platform was. That man was Stephen Arnold Douglas, the senior U.S. senator from Illinois whose seat was up for re-election that year. Although Douglas stood only . . . . Continue Reading »
Russian Jeremiah
by Ryszard LegutkoBetween Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by aleksandr solzhenitsyn notre dame, 480 pages, $35 The first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoir of exile, Between Two Millstones, begins with the author’s expulsion from the Soviet Union and closes with him viewing the landscape . . . . Continue Reading »
Undoing the Demos
by Darel E. PaulGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by quinn slobodian harvard, 400 pages, $35 On April 15, 1994, in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 124 countries signed an agreement effecting the greatest legal and institutional reform of the world economy in history. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative Democracy
by Yoram HazonyThe present moment is one of growing discomfort, both in America and in Europe, with the regnant liberal political theory often described as liberal democracy. It is frequently said that the only genuine alternatives to liberal democracy are Marxism and Fascism, but I don’t believe this is . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousDeath Penalty Sad to say, but as surely as night follows day, when Pope Francis speaks on doctrinal matters, confusion results. And so it is with the pope’s August revision to section 2267 of the Catechism. Although taught by the Church for two millennia as a legitimate punishment for . . . . Continue Reading »
Deneen Among the Liberals
by Peter J. LeithartDeneen’s definition of liberalism disregards the role of religion and the public management of religion in the formation of liberal order. Continue Reading »
You Better Like It
by R. R. RenoSuicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy by jonah goldberg crown, 464 pages, $28 Jonah Goldberg exemplifies the decadence and dysfunction of today’s public discourse. According to his new book, the West . . . . Continue Reading »
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