Essays

May 11, 2020

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Tad Tietze

Populist Panic at the Movies

Despite what a fearful political class imagines, “Joker” and “Falling Down” are artful studies in paranoia, not allegories on the politics of “the deplorables.”
May 5, 2020

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Daniel McCarthy

A Philosophy of Fear—and Society of Scolds

What Thomas Hobbes tells us about the response to the coronavirus—and why the unafraid cannot be tolerated by right-thinking liberals.
April 27, 2020

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Mark Judge

Skateboarding with Jordan Peterson—and Nietzsche

What is it about skateboarding that infuriates the moral scolds and tyrannomaniacs?
March 30, 2020

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Cicero Bruce

The Ideal Teacher of Literature

If students are not taught truth derived from an order higher than the natural, they have no hope of forming their characters in light of the perennial verities.
March 23, 2020

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Paul A. Cantor

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity

The supreme playwright was indebted to the ancient world’s heroism as well as its eroticism. Jonathan Bate’s new book gets the story half right.
March 9, 2020

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Jared Morgan McKinney

Two Concepts of Peace

America is at a crossroads: pursue a peace of hierarchy or a peace of equality. History has shown that these paths lead in very different directions.
January 13, 2020

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Paul A. Cantor

Milch’s Last Stand: The Deadwood Movie

The TV series Deadwood was canceled before it could give fans a proper resolution. Now there’s a movie to tie up loose ends. Has the series finally achieved greatness?
December 16, 2019

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Michael Anton

The Great Tradition vs. Empire

Philosophy shows that imperialism—even the soft imperialism of globalist government—is the ruin of virtue.
December 9, 2019

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Stephanie Slade

Samuel Gregg’s Struggle for the West

A new book argues that the West built its civilization on a reasonable faith. Will modern pathologies, from Marxism to radical Islam, destroy it?
November 12, 2019

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Lee Edwards

Conservatism: The Fusionism of Prudence

Does fusionism have a future among conservatives in the 21st century? A historian of the movement says yes.

Essays

Populist Panic at the Movies

A Philosophy of Fear—and Society of Scolds

Skateboarding with Jordan Peterson—and Nietzsche

The Ideal Teacher of Literature

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity

Two Concepts of Peace

Milch’s Last Stand: The Deadwood Movie

The Great Tradition vs. Empire

Samuel Gregg’s Struggle for the West

Conservatism: The Fusionism of Prudence

Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch

Flannery at 100—and Forever

Religion and Empire, Inseparable

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