Victor Davis Hanson examines the Trump Presidency through a classical lens, casting the Donald as a tragic hero straight out of Sophocles: a narcissistic savior whose mercurial personality is both the source of his...
ACROSS THE WORLD, the reputation of elites and their institutions is in free fall. A flood of online information has given the public... Read More
In his 2013 article “The Catholic Writer Today,” Dana Gioia argued that the term “Catholic writer” no longer applies... Read More
In This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson continues the project of scientific... Read More
To outsiders, the area around McAllen, Texas is best known for other reasons: It's ground zero in the immigration wars. This is where Donald... Read More
In 2013, a Prospect magazine profile of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the Brexiteer's party in Chaucerian terms:UKIP is... Read More
WASHINGTON—A former Trump administration official laid out a comprehensive critique not only of the Left but of conventional... Read More
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser whose barside comments to an Australian diplomat helped trigger what became... Read More
Despite the spread of secularism in the West, rising levels of religious belief in the world as a whole have become incontrovertible.... Read More
If you grew up in Texas, chances are you've heard the old joke about the man teaching his son about good manners. "Never ask a man if he's... Read More
Victor Davis Hanson examines the Trump Presidency through a classical lens, casting the Donald as a tragic hero straight out of Sophocles: a narcissistic savior whose mercurial personality is both the source of his...
Though contemporary Western democracies are clearly marvels by any historical standard, they suffer from one clear, grievous flaw –... Read More
Published in the fall of 1929, two weeks before the Wall Street crash, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz is a classic of... Read More
National Review asked some writers and collectors to describe their personal libraries. Here's how they replied:Richard Brookhiser:My... Read More
The potent thesis of John Gray's short and eloquent new volume is: “If you want to understand atheism and religion, you must... Read More
When studying the past, it is tempting to explore what men and women aspired to: what sorts of societies they envisioned, and what sorts of... Read More
Historians of higher education are members of a small subfield of an increasingly neglected discipline within the contemporary academy, but... Read More
Pity the wryneck – a species of long-tongued woodpecker – in ancient Greece: it had the great misfortune to be considered an... Read More
Just down the road from where I live is an excellent bakery. Our London neighbourhood has lately transformed itself from the kind of place... Read More
Alex and Wendy love culture. It's how they spend their free time. It's what they talk about at dinner parties. When they go jogging or to the... Read More
An evening with Mrs. Merkel, Mrs. May, or President Macron would, I suspect, be about as entertaining as dentistry without anaesthetic; but it would be like an evening with Oscar Wilde by comparison with an evening with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Opposition in Britain, who is possibly, though not certainly, the country's next Prime Minister.In normal circumstances, no one would dream of writ Read More
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) thought, wrote and lived as both a philosopher and a spiritual seeker. His century saw the growth of modern universities, and an increasing professionalization of intellectual labour. During the 1830s Kierkegaard was a theology student at the University of Copenhagen, where he received a broad education, discovering Romanticism and German Idealism as well as studyi Read More
Interviewed on the Todayprogram on March 7, a former executive of the gigantic Chinese tech firm Huawei admitted: ‘It is the nature of humanity to spy, to conduct espionage.' A gold-plated incarnation of this impulse is the tall, craggy-faced German journalist who was arrested in his pajamas in his Tokyo house in October 1941. ‘I am a Nazi!' he insisted to the Japanese police, who, before ente Read More
