The West

Michael Millerman on Alexander Dugin Explained

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Michael Millerman to talk about his article, “Alexander Dugin Explained,” from the February 2023 issue. Continue Reading »

9 Feb 2023

Why I Went to a Catholic College

by Veronica Clarke

I was seventeen when my father and I embarked on the long flight to Denver from Amsterdam, with a layover in London. He read George Eliot; I read Batman: The Long Halloween. It was dark by the time we checked into the hotel, and still dark the next morning when we set out in our rental car. We drove . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2022

Finding the Bishops We Need

by George Weigel

Lay Catholics can be helpful in identifying potential bishops with the apostolic zeal, and with the personal qualities and skills needed to be a leader whom others are eager to follow. Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2022

Rancher Rebels

by Helen Andrews

At a time when most of the news on television is at some level fake, the 2014 standoff at the Bundy ranch in Nevada stood out as a real event. Here was no pseudo-spectacle thrown together for the cameras. Cliven Bundy, a Mormon rancher in Nevada, had a real quarrel with the Bureau of Land . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

Against the Open Society

by Ryszard Legutko

The title of R. R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods requires qualification. To begin with, most of what Reno tells us concerns not the gods’ return, but their expulsion. As for the gods themselves, they “are not golden idols or characters in ancient mythologies,” Reno writes. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019

Strong Gods and Weak Gods

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, R. R. Reno discusses the dogmas and assumptions of the postwar consensus, the rise of populism, and his new book, Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2019

Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance

by R. R. Reno

The achievements and influence of the transatlantic alliance are at risk. Continue Reading »

10 Sep 2019

Russian Jeremiah

by Ryszard Legutko

Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by aleksandr solzhenitsyn notre dame, 480 pages, $35 The first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoir of exile, Between Two Millstones, begins with the author’s expulsion from the Soviet Union and closes with him viewing the landscape . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019