Lend Me Your Ears
Robert Philip's new book will help you enjoy and understand Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, and the other greats of the basic repertory.
Articles by Robert R. Reilly
Ancients, Moderns, Americans
Harry Jaffa stands as a champion of the primacy of reason and nature against the primacy of will and power.
For God and Country
Can good Christians be good Americans?
Losing the Argument
Robert Reilly believes conservatives have lost the battle to save traditional marriage because they've chosen losing arguments.
Arab Winter
A review of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, by Andrew C. McCarthy and Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism by Andrew G. Bostom
A Musical Messiah?
A review of Gustav Mahler, by Jens Malte Fischer
Persecution and the Art of Music
A review of Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, by Wendy Lesser
Bernard Lewis and the Arab Spring
The prospects for democracy in the Middle East.
Thinking Like A Terrorist
Seeing Islamist jihad for what it is - an expression of pseudo religion and false reality.
Winning the War of Ideas
How to reinvigorate American public diplomacy.
The Highest Things
Political philosophy has the obligation to look at all cities - Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome.