Colin Redemer on Conservatives for Labor

by R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Colin Redemer to talk about his article, “Conservatives for Labor,” from the December 2022 issue. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2023

Letters from Rome: #1

by George Weigel

Joseph Ratzinger had “the mind of twelve professors” and the clear piety of a child making his or her first Holy Communion.  Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2023

Benedict XVI, Disciple

by Thomas G. Guarino

It is rare that the Church is graced with a pope who is both a world-class theologian and an intensely spiritual pastor. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2023

Return to the Classics

by Jeremy Tate

A rising number of students today are drawn to schools that emphasize tradition and faith. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2023

Slippery Slopes

by Ephraim Radner

The Canadian government, with its leaders, functionaries, and even its medical acolytes, may well deserve to be charged with crimes against humanity. I am not speaking about crimes done against indigenous peoples, a different area of moral and judicial concern. I have in mind another set of crimes, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Get Real

by Jennifer A. Frey

In the mid-1980s, the Catholic philosopher Elizabeth ­Anscombe drew up a syllabus of errors, which she delivered—rather appropriately—in Rome, to a group of moral theologians. Her syllabus consisted of twenty theses, commonly held by her fellow analytic philosophers, that she deemed . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

MacIntyre in Retreat

by Edward Skidelsky

He lived, he worked, he died.” Heidegger’s famously terse summary of Aristotle’s life expresses one common view of the project of intellectual biography. An opposed view holds that every thinker’s work is a disguised confession—a translation into the abstract language of thought, of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Anatomy of a Cancellation

by Scott Yenor

It all began at the National Conservatism conference in Orlando on Halloween 2021. I spoke on family decline and what to do about it. For generations, conservatives have tried to promote the interests of families while respecting the goals of feminists and sexual liberationists. “Compassionate . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Fun Trumps Fear

by Liel Leibovitz

What to make of the midterm elections? You may, if you wish, lend your ear to the ululations of our self-appointed intellectual and moral betters, who are eager to tell you that the mythical Red Wave failed to materialize because of Donald Trump, or because of Dobbs, or because of January 6th, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Grace and Serendipity

by Joshua T. Katz

When you’re a linguist, you get used to being asked how ­many languages you speak. But a few years ago I was asked for the first time, by a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, what my favorite words are. “Grace and serendipity,” I blurted out—not a graceful response, but a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023