As late as a century ago Washington’s Farewell Address would have ranked along with the Declaration and the Constitution as an intellectual source of periodic self-renewal for American patriots. It was still being memorized and declaimed in schools and referred to...
In Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute, Ryan Anderson has a two-part article on the flaws of modern economics (part one) (part two). We commend it to your attention. Anderson notes the lacunae in modern economic thought, which has little...
If there is one principle which is nearly axiomatic among our contemporaries who regard themselves as poets and critics of poetry, it is that poetry should be written in the language of the everyday. This opinion can be traced back to Wordsworth’s famous assertion...
This paper was delivered at the launching of the Christian Studies Institute program at Hillsdale College on November 8, 1980. What can a student today rightfully demand from a “liberal arts education”? A diploma that translates into a better-paid job? Such a...
John Henry Newman: A View of Catholic Faith for the New Millennium by John R. Connolly. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, pp. xviii+162. cloth $90; paper: $30.With this book, Connolly, a professor at Loyola Marymount, hopes to reach not only theologians and...
Unmasking the Ideological Lie
Jeffrey Folks on "The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now" by Daniel J. Mahoney. @EncounterBooks @ClaremontInst
A Measured Look at an Unsettling Ideology
Daniel J. Fischer reviews "On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice" by Adam Kirsch.
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