Prodigal Evangelicalism: A Video Essay
by Megan BashamMegan Basham describes her experience of conversion into the evangelical church and present ideological pathologies growing within it. Continue Reading »
The Progressive Scarlett O'Hara
by Matthew SchmitzIn the summer of 2020, HBO removed Gone with the Wind (1939) from its streaming service. The move came in response to an op-ed by John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave (2013), which charged that the film “glorifies the antebellum south,” “romanticizes the . . . . Continue Reading »
Ireland’s Next Referendum
by John DugganCatholic Ireland's battle against the de-Catholicizing of her Constitution is coming to an end.
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A Tradition of Anti-Traditionalists
by Mark BauerleinWhat this bias in academia has produced is two generations of college teachers who don’t realize their bias. Continue Reading »
Spare the Truth, Spoil the Child
by M. D. AeschlimanAfter a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction. Continue Reading »
Gary Saul Morson on Suicide of the Liberals
by R. R. RenoGary Saul Morson joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2020 issue, “Suicide of the Liberals.” Continue Reading »
The Power of Reality
by John HaldaneThe 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 »
The Scent of a Soul
by Francis X. MaierBefore criticizing others, the Catholic left might profitably examine its own long record of carnal relations with the Democratic Party. Continue Reading »
What Progressives Did to Cities
by Michael AntonCrime-fighting mayors brought about an urban renaissance. It ended gradually, then suddenly.
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Catholic Progressives and the Culture War
by George WeigelCatholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
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