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It is no secret that American public life is fracturing. The fissures can be seen in our gladiatorial-like Supreme Court nomination hearings,... Read More

Extremists are the greatest danger to America, according to the Biden administration and many media outlets, and come in only two varieties:... Read More

Thirty-two years ago, the young Nicholas Crane, who would go on to become one of England’s most esteemed television geographers, set... Read More

The Viking Heart, the latest work by the historian Arthur Herman, is engaging, informative, and highly readable. As Herman deals with... Read More

Ten years ago this month, the story goes, a few dozen activists squatted in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street. Three years had passed since... Read More

Seven hundred years ago in a commentary on a religious tract, William of Ockham, a Franciscan friar, wrote that “plurality must never... Read More

Within the context of the events taking place during his lifetime, Thomas Jefferson comes off as the prudent voice of reason and... Read More

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a compelling fable, told by an expert storyteller. A recipient of... Read More

As U.S. troops continued their exit from Afghanistan this summer, a former high-school history student of mine (and a former Marine)... Read More

In 1920, after failing five times to find a publisher for his newly finished book, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, the Austrian-born... Read More

Reflection on business and the economy from the standpoint of texts deemed by many people to be sacred has produced decidedly mixed results... Read More

Arepublic that wages unending war beyond its frontiers sets itself up for decline and fall. Its intractable military skirmishing is like the... Read More

IN 1982, MCKINSEY & CO. management consultants Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. published one of the most influential tracts on... Read More

Something new took place in the German states in 1802. A work of philosophy was published under a woman’s name. In her audacious... Read More

What difference does aesthetic experience make in shaping who we are? If you’ve ever had a book or painting touch you to the core, you... Read More

Edmund Fawcett’s Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition is an expansive volume covering conservative thought and practice... Read More

Tracy clark-flory’s memoir, Want Me, is subtitled A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire, and it begins with... Read More

America needs to dismantle its power structures, say woke activists, repeating a theme that has become ubiquitous across American identity... Read More

The reputation of science had been taking a bit of a battering before its successes in fighting the global pandemic raised its esteem. Could... Read More

“Jim’s job,” one of his former business partners told author Ben Schreckinger of President Biden’s younger brother... Read More

The late Harry V. Jaffa, who died in 2015 at age 96, is known primarily for three things. First, for his revolutionary work on the... Read More

Seventy-five years ago today, “a little squib” contributed decisively to changing American attitudes toward the Soviet... Read More

Half a decade on, “Brexit and Trump” remain shorthand for the rise of right-wing populism and a profound unsettling of liberal... Read More

As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs.... Read More

The Caucasus, a popular saying goes, is a ‘mountain of tongues’. Describing this region requires a strong constitution,... Read More

In April 2014, nine blue whales perished off the shores of after getting trapped in the ice packs of the Cabot Strait. One of these... Read More