A Swedish Christmas

by Clemens Cavallin

Swedish Yule (Jul) traditions are not what you think they are. Continue Reading »

24 Dec 2018

Champagne for All

by Matthew Walther

A Scent of Champagne: 8,000 Champagnes Tasted and Rated by richard juhlinskyhorse publishing, 400 pages, $95 Lord Keynes regretted very little, but he once confided to Noel Annan that he wished he had drunk more champagne. As with most of his pronouncements that did not touch directly upon questions . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2017

Socialism in America?

by David T. Koyzis

Americans once regarded socialism with a mixture of fear and bemusement. Why then have so many lost this fear such that they are prepared to put a socialist in the Oval Office? Continue Reading »

24 Nov 2015

Waiting for St. Vladimir

by Robert T. Miller

Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying, “We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” In that book MacIntyre argues that a correct understanding of morality is based . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2011

What Is Left of Socialism

by Leszek Kolakowski

Karl Marx—a powerful mind, a very learned man, and a good German writer—died 119 years ago. He lived in the age of steam; never in his life did he see a car, a telephone, or an electric light, to say nothing of later technological devices. His admirers and followers used to say and some . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2002

Utopian Passions

by David Horowitz

“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.”   —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx Moscow, August 1991 The monuments have fallen now; the faces are changed. In the graveyards the martyrs have been rehabilitated, and everywhere the names are restored. In a revolutionary . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1992

Reviving the Missionary Mandate

by Richard John Neuhaus

The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described the complicated connections between the Christian missionary enterprise and the future of an essentially Western civilization that is, in however ambiguous a manner, a product of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

Editorial: That Encyclical

by The Editors

Pope John Paul II's Centesimus annus affirms the cultural and its religious . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Editorial: Equality After Socialism

by The Editors

Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A system that in Marx’s vision would result in economic abundance and political liberation wound up in practice as economically ruinous and politically tyrannical. The world is well rid of it. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1990

Sakharov’s Legacy

by Holt Ruffin

At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher. What now?” Andrei Sakharov, physicist, so-called “father of the Soviet H-bomb,” three-time Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Order of Lenin, had in fact become a sort of father to the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1990