Fall 2019

Editorials

The Spirits of ’89 by Daniel McCarthy

Essays

Film & Stage

The Cinema of Self by Noah Millman

Books

Austrian Lessons for American Security by William Anthony Hay
Big Men on Campus by Todd Seavey
Nussbaum’s Surprising Conservatism by Anthony M. Barr
Philly Blues by Nicole Gelinas
Republican Carnage by Fred Barnes
White Whales by James Poulos

Poetry

All Hallows by J. M. Jordan
For That Which Has Fallen by Andrew Frisardi
Hunger by Susan Delaney Spear
Nooses by J. P. Celia
Remains by Susan Delaney Spear
The Old Logging Road by J. M. Jordan

Current Issue

Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch

by Roger Kimball
Religion and Empire, Inseparable

by Dominic Green
Flannery at 100—and Forever

by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Most Popular

How “The Brutalist” Brutalizes History

Noah Millman

And everything else the supposed “masterpiece” touches.
Moderation as Pursuit of Justice

Daniel J. Mahoney

John Kekes and Aurelian Craiutu ask what virtues make a society truly good.
Has Cancel Culture Been Canceled?

Gene Callahan

And if it hasn’t, should it be?
Classical Education’s Thriving Counterculture

Mark Bauerlein

There should be more schools like Cardinal Kung Academy.
A Call to Rekindle American Tradition

Allen Mendenhall

In his new book, Kevin Roberts wants to “empower real Americans to take back our country.”

Spotlight

February 21

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David Lewis Schaefer

Should Liberty Have Limits?

Joseph Stiglitz’s path out of neoliberalism would lead straight to state coercion.

February 18

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Noah Millman

Encounters with East and West

Salesman in China and Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days are brilliant cultural mirrors.

February 17

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Herman Belz

Abraham Lincoln

Was he a constitutionalist or a revolutionist?

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