Ellmers offers a helpful corrective from which Christians can learn. It is not enough to dismiss “wokeness” as a new and false religion, to be combatted with the true religion. Continue Reading »
Glenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss the internal contradictions of the contemporary left and how postmodernism undermines political philosophy. Continue Reading »
Daniel McCarthy joins the podcast to discuss his foreword in Willmoore Kendall's newly re-published book, The Conservative Affirmation. Continue Reading »
Our editors reflect on Czesław Miłosz, crime fiction, Roger Scruton, and the divine right of kings. Continue Reading »
The silencing of conservative voices in political science is an assault on free inquiry into the nature of just governance. Continue Reading »
We have lost a brilliant man defined by his sage counsel, his moral outrage, and his profound love of the West. Continue Reading »
The time is coming, perhaps soon, when our elites will suppress the American flag and wave all the more insistently the rainbow substitute. Continue Reading »
Why Liberalism Failedby patrick j. deneenyale, 248 pages, $30 Patrick Deneen asserts that liberalism has failed. He also asserts (in a recent article) that “the exceedingly narrow victory of Donald Trump may be understood as the last gasp of a dying conservatism that has been destroyed by American . . . . Continue Reading »
From the City Journal, this time, a full essay, with a title that says it all “City, Empire, Church, Nation.” Here’s a taste: During the premodern era, competing political forms—the city, the empire, and the Church—checked one another, so it was necessary to . . . . Continue Reading »
The new book on contemporary French (and Catholic) political philosopher Chantal Delsol, Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol is now out. It features essays by Peter Lawler, Paul Seaton, Lauren Hall, and yours truly, as well as translated tid-bits from what Seaton . . . . Continue Reading »
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