How World War I proved the turning point for American music, as Old World classical met New World jazz
The fire at Notre-Dame this past April reminded us of both the fragility of our civilization and the enduring power of beauty
What do the novelist Marilynne Robinson and the late political philosopher Peter Augustine Lawler have in common? Call it a yearning for home.
The French polymath renowned for diagnosing technology’s evils found a cure not in more technology but in God
The modernism Gabriel Josipovici advocates represents an artistic middle way through the nihilistic loss of the contemporary world.
Francis Fukuyama argues that liberal democracies are healthiest when they foster inclusive national communities, rather than narrow identities among the aggrieved. But is an inclusive national identity possible?
The culture of America is fragmenting, and social pathologies multiply. Is a pluralism that features cohesive local communities a way forward?
As Daniel J. Mahoney demonstrates, the “religion of humanity” has had many inhumane consequences.
Colleges should be safe spaces—for rational discourse.
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