Rising Anti-Semitism in the Anglosphere
by Melissa Langsam BraunsteinSurging anti-Semitism signals societal decay, including increasing intolerance for religious minorities and ideological dissenters. Continue Reading »
America’s Greatest Explorer
by Jeremy BeerOn July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House wondering what would befall them for having dared to rebel against their king, a lone, hungry Spanish priest lay in the windswept stone plaza of a Hopi village wondering what would befall him for . . . . Continue Reading »
Calling Western Civilization to Its Senses
by John DugganAlliance for Responsible Citizenship is perhaps intended to be a signal directed at conservatives with political power that they now have an expectant, well-resourced, and high-status movement at their backs. Continue Reading »
Michael Millerman on Alexander Dugin Explained
by R. R. RenoEditor R. R. Reno is joined by Michael Millerman to talk about his article, “Alexander Dugin Explained,” from the February 2023 issue. Continue Reading »
Why I Went to a Catholic College
by Veronica ClarkeI 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 »
Finding the Bishops We Need
by George WeigelLay 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 »
Rancher Rebels
by Helen AndrewsAt 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 »
Against the Open Society
by Ryszard LegutkoThe 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 »
Strong Gods and Weak Gods
by Mark BauerleinOn 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 »
Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance
by R. R. RenoThe achievements and influence of the transatlantic alliance are at risk. Continue Reading »
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