Beware the Little Lambs Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else. Ben Turtel 15 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
The Road Out of Nowhere A new book celebrates Springsteen’s stark 1982 classic, ‘Nebraska.’ Matt Hanson 13 Feb 2024 · 6 min read
The Odyssey of Classical Education Classical education instills precisely the skills and habits most sorely needed in society today. Robert C. Thornett 9 Feb 2024 · 8 min read
Make Way for the Jesuits In the seventeenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how The Society of Jesus became a powerful player in the colonization of North America. Greg Koabel 30 Jan 2024 · 25 min read
Bestseller Reparations In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy. Thomas Larson 24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read
A Gathering of the Huns In the seventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes how disparate Hunnic tribes coalesced into the unified force that would terrorize Europe. Herbert Bushman 23 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Master of Reality “Things were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.” George Case 22 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’ Netflix somehow managed to turn the most talented, beloved, and complex American musician in history into a two-dimensional domestic villain. Daniel Lelchuk 16 Jan 2024 · 9 min read
Huck Finn or Uncle Tom? These great books should be read together, for each illuminates a different part of the American character. Tim DeRoche 13 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
The Laurentian Coalition Takes Root In the 16th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ historian Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain overcame a decade of frustration by finally establishing a successful French fur-trading monopoly. Greg Koabel 12 Jan 2024 · 25 min read
The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps The Ancient Greek sculptures are a bellwether of where the “decolonization” of museums is headed. James Kierstead 11 Jan 2024 · 14 min read
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened. Matt Hanson 7 Jan 2024 · 6 min read
Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror. Jonathan Kay 6 Jan 2024 · 15 min read
