Western Tradition

Yale Loses an Inspiration

Yale’s “Introduction to Art History,” a longstanding course in a Western Civ tradition, has undergone a diversity revision. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2020

The Struggle for Western Civilization

by Mark Bauerlein

Samuel Gregg discusses his new book Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization. Continue Reading »

26 Jul 2019

Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by rajiv malhotra harpercollins, 488 pages, $26.99 Following the Brexit referendum, The Economist wrote, “Farewell, left versus right. The contest that matters now is open against closed.” Rajiv . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

Catholic Classical Education on the Rise

by Jay Boren

The key to our school's growth is this: We proudly adhere to a distinctive mission. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2017

The Secret of the Self

by Wilfred M. McClay

Consider the obituary column in your local newspaper—not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary obituary of an ordinary person from an ordinary place. Consider it first as a surviving family member or friend, the one who has to gather the information for the obituary and select . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2005

Briefly Noted 913

by Various

Byzantium: The Apogee by John Julius Norwich Knopf, 389 pages, $30 John Julius Norwich is a good storyteller and Byzantine history is filled with lively tales of palace intrigue, nepotism, treachery, assassinations, arranged marriages, perfidious ambassadors, ambitious generals, sieges of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1992

Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions

by S. Mark Heim

We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal affirmation of the equal validity of all world faiths. It is argued that Christianity (and to some extent other traditions) has been infected with a virulent exclusivist virus, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992

A Modern Jeremiad

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by christopher lasch w. w. norton, 576 pages, $25 Christopher Lasch has written a “loose, baggy monster” of a hook. He takes on nothing less than “the western human condition,” arguing determinedly and, to my mind, persuasively that the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1991

Conflict of Canons

by Peter J. Leithart

In his 1989 novel The Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and erstwhile presidential candidate, describes the Machiguenga, a scattered and wandering Amazonian tribe, the various clans of which are unified by the activities of the mysterious “hablador,”or “talker.” . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991