The Honor Deficit

by James Hankins

The decline of meritocratic standards in American universities, and the rise of identity-based admissions, is leading to an honor deficit that might well spell the end of elite education. Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2022

Who Invented the Individual?

by George Weigel

By desacralizing state power, Christianity helped make possible the idea of the limited state, which was not an immaculate conception sprung from the mind of John Locke.   Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2022

St. Basil’s Guide to Cultural Appropriation

by James Hankins

The right pagan philosophers, above all the moral philosophers, can teach us how to escape from the prison of the body’s passions. Continue Reading »

7 Dec 2021

How to Be on the Right Side of History

by James Hankins

Maybe, just maybe, in the future of America there lies not some woke utopia but a Renaissance of the Western tradition. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2021

Virtue vs. Virtue-Signaling

by James Hankins

Being elite now means holding a particular set of ideas, not a set of virtues. Virtue is signaled, not acquired.  Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2021

The Rise of the Middle Ages

by Richard Rex

Johan Huizinga’s The Waning of the Middle Ages, as it was once known, is a hundred years old and has just been awarded the accolade of a magnificent centenary edition in a superb, fresh English translation. This lavishly illustrated volume marvelously enhances the reader’s encounter with a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2021

Teaching Christian Humanism

by Virgil Nemoianu

Once we’ve denounced the balderdash that all too often passes for teaching in contemporary American colleges, there still remains the question of what we ought to teach instead. Indignation is an insufficient alternative to the brutal secularization of the college curriculum. But some conservative . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1996