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 »
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 »
The achievements and influence of the transatlantic alliance are at risk. Continue Reading »
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 »
In giving voice to faith’s role in the West, Donald Trump’s Poland speech was no mere dog whistle. Continue Reading »
Donald Trump’s Warsaw speech suggests the sun is setting on the post-war era. Continue Reading »
Over the past three decades, the French philosopher Pierre Manent has published a series of works on the destiny of the West and our modern political condition that are both profound and—atypical of Parisian intellectuals—expressed in luminous prose.
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