Guilt Without Vice, Innocence Without Virtue
There is no shortage of memorable gems in Joshua Mitchell’s inviting and challenging book on the scourge of identity politics.
Liberal Totalitarianism on Campus
The censorious new Jacobins castigate Frederick Douglass’s position as racist and supportive of white supremacy. Their hubris is appalling.
The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty
A civilization that vilifies and dismisses religion and traditional morality would be a dark one—in truth, it would be no civilization at all.
What Does Our Nation Mean to Us? Rejecting the Culture of Hate
Freedom has died many times in history; let us not witness new death pangs on the anniversary of its birth.
A World Without Heroes or Saints
The distinguished French Catholic political thinker Pierre Manent perfectly describes the humanitarian temptation that afflicts the Western world today. “The great danger of contemporary humanitarianism,” Manent […]
Thinking Clearly About Russia
It is fair to say that the American Left as whole was “soft” on the Soviet Union during the last 25 years of the Cold […]