Affirmative Action Hypocrisy

by Mark Bauerlein

Kenny Xu joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy. Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2022

In America, but Not of America

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Some of the most tactically effective defenses of religious liberty rely on appeals to theories of rights or alliances with candidates who cut against the core of your faith. These strategies can win the battle but lose the war. Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2022

Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion

by John Murdock

Gun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2022

Providence at Work in Poland

by Raymond J. de Souza

Against our bleak horizon, it seems impossible to hope that peace and liberty may prevail. But Providence is still at work, if hidden from our eyes. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2022

Sacraments, Hymns, and Baptist Beginnings

by Mark Bauerlein

Michael Haykin joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands: Recovering Sacrament in the Baptist Tradition. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2022

Christopher Caldwell on Regime Change, American Style

by R. R. Reno

Christopher Caldwell joins the podcast to discuss his extensive review of Garrett M. Graff's recent book, Watergate: A New History and the transformations within American politics during the Nixon era. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2022

Proposing a New Ritual for America’s Civic Religion

by Dore Feith

Celebrating an annual Founding Night would remind our communities that only an awake citizenry can preserve the principles that offer the blessings of liberty to all Americans.  Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2022

Ruth Amid the Alien Corn

by Stuart Halpern and Tevi Troy

As American Jews hear the story of Ruth and Naomi during the upcoming holiday, they can relate Ruth’s tremendous accomplishments as a penniless immigrant who became the ancestor of a great king to America’s history as an immigrant-welcoming nation. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2022

Letters

by Various

Cassandra Nelson’s “A Theo­logy of Fiction” (April) is a welcome intervention and advance in an ­ongoing conversation that, as ­Nelson herself notes, I’ve been invested in for some time. Nelson’s attentiveness to the work of Sr. Mariella Gable—and her related readings of a series . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2022

The Shadow of Failure

by Ross Douthat

I am grateful to Edmund Waldstein for his kind response to my essay, and for his writings on these subjects generally. I am especially grateful in this case for his crisp elucidation of the Maritain–De Koninck debate and its implications for contemporary arguments, a subject whose subtleties I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2022