Petering
by Matthew T. WarnezA man does tireof beingcold. He nears the fire.But beingtold, he lets expirethe BeingBold. —Matthew T. . . . . Continue Reading »
Doubting Thomas
by Edward FeserH. L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Puritans, and Calvinists more generally, have a reputation for harboring an ungenerous suspicion of even the most innocent delights as sinfulness in disguise. Though this reputation is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousUnion and Absolution Mark Bauerlein, in his insightful piece “A Less Perfect Union” (January), states that the “Southern generals became idols after the war, and rightly so.” Lee and Jackson were far superior to the Union generals, especially in the first years of the war. His comments, . . . . Continue Reading »
Insider-Outsiders
by Joseph M. KeeginWhatever Fred Moten is up to, it must be brilliant. Moten, a professor of performance studies at NYU, was awarded a MacArthur grant in 2020, a Guggenheim fellowship in 2016, and numerous awards for his poetry. He holds degrees in English from two of the highest-rated English departments in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Tradismatic Trentecostalism
by Clement J. HarroldSteubenville, Ohio, home to Franciscan University, is a small city on the banks of the Ohio River linking the Buckeye State with Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Like much of the Rust Belt, Steubenville has seen better days. But coinciding with economic downturn has been a spiritual renewal that . . . . Continue Reading »
The Imagined Citadel
by Matthew RoseRené Guénon was one of the twentieth century’s most important traditionalist thinkers, as well as one of its strangest intellectual figures. In more than two dozen books, he claimed to reveal the hidden principles on which civilizations had rested since the dawn of humanity. His disclosure was . . . . Continue Reading »
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster III
by Mia Schilling GroganIII. Conversion God, imagine you(O Majesty!)emerging fromobscurityat thatsmall feast— At Cana,a wonder:clarity uncloudstheir heartswhen the best winegushesfrom the water jars. For thatI thank you,my Dear.And, Love,I’m praying:please pour over meyour charity;douse mein the delightof . . . . Continue Reading »
Religious Freedom in America
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Katie Geary joins the podcast to talk about the Religious Freedom Index, a survey by Becket Law. Continue Reading »
What Have We Done to Them?
by Elizabeth BachmannOn this episode, Elizabeth Bachmann, a Junior Fellow at First Things, interviews Mark Bauerlein about his new book, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. Continue Reading »
What Led to Canada’s Crisis
by Nathan PinkoskiIn Canada, an ideologically supercharged managerial class has accelerated the adoption of a new kind of emergency politics. Continue Reading »
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