Racism

The Kindness Challenge

Kindness is a grace that acts in and on nature and is a tool for the good. I read nothing of this in the kindness literature. Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2022

Black Patriotism Over White Paternalism

by Mark Bauerlein

W. B. Allen joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss a recently published collection of essays that he edited, The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic. Continue Reading »

15 Aug 2022

Who Defined Race in America?

by Mark Bauerlein

David E. Bernstein joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2022

Spendthrift Theology

by R. R. Reno

Last summer saw the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, a motu proprio that limited the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. In December, the Vatican issued clarifications of those limits. I’m not a canon lawyer, so I won’t go into the details. It’s sufficient to say . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

What the 1619 Project Means

by Helen Andrews

In 1930, Lorenzo Greene traveled around the United States selling books about black history on behalf of his boss, Carter G. Woodson, the man who invented Black History Week (later Month), and his organization, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Greene had a degree from . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

Reality Is Messy

by John Wilson

Let us resolve, in this new year, to push back against the fashionable narrative that our society is more divided than ever. Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2022

The Arch

by Raymond J. de Souza

Tutu was the great hope for a peaceful civil rights movement in the Apartheid era, an African Martin Luther King Jr. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2022

Men Are at War with God

by Mary Eberstadt

Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten God.” So far, the twenty-first century might be summarized in six: Men are at war with God. Awakened from agnostic slumber by new forms of temptation, chiefly the sexual revolution, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2022