The Left Side of History
Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
From the Editor's Desk
An Abundance of Caution
How much liberty are Americans prepared to renounce, or defer, in this moment?
Correspondence
Correspondence, Spring 2020
Playing the Victim; A Christian Revolution?; Federalists and Anti-Federalists; Exceptional America; Gone to Pot; Requiescat in Pace
Essays
The Mind of the Moralist
Samuel Johnson, first among equals.
The Original Fascist
From movement to epithet.
Pledging Allegiance
Dual citizenship, dual loyalty, and inequality.
The Legacy of Wounded Knee
Burying the myth of the noble savage.
The Social Justice Endgame
What do social justice warriors want?
The Chinese Challenge
America has never faced such an adversary.
War for the West
What if the Persians had defeated the Greeks?
Republics, Extended and Multicultural
Not all majorities are created equal.
Book Reviews
The Left Side of History
Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
Merit and Misery
What's the matter with meritocracy? Just about everything.
God, Man, and the Constitution
The Founders' thinking presupposed the Christian teaching of a fallen human nature.
Ancient and Modern Liberty
The regime of modern liberty desperately needs old wisdom to avoid abandoning with contempt its own crucial preconditions.
One Rule for Life
There is just one rule for life and one antidote for chaos: common sense.
Curtailing the Court
If judges acknowledged the political background of much constitutional debate, they would act with more restraint.
Sounding Presidential
Donald Trump is precisely not the type of demagogue that the founders feared.
Our Bookless Future
It won’t be long before all living memory of a time before the personal computer is gone.
The Disgraceful Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn's polemical history of the United States is distorted, manipulative, and dishonest.
The Petrarchan Moment
Humanism was a movement with a political mission, and its founder was Petrarch.
Public Spiritedness
Aristotle's lessons about democracy are ancient but not superseded.
A Delicate Tapestry
The divorce between faith and reason remains a troubling phenomenon within Christian nations of the West.
The Ronald and the Donald
Trumpian populism is distinct from Reaganite conservatism in substance as well as style.
Shadow Play
A Mouthful of Bees
Correcting the record on Clarence Thomas—again.
Parthian Shot
Prudence and Pandemics
The lesson of this pandemic is prudence; we have not been prudent.