Bleak Nation
Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
Book Reviews
Bleak Nation
Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
The 1619 Lesson
If the young are taught the terrible falsehood that “racism is and always was the dominant ideology,” then the American experiment will hang by the thinnest thread, and we will have no Lincolns to save it.
Everyman’s Bill Buckley
M. Stanton Evans was ahead of his time, foreseeing many of the problems we face today.
The Skills to Pay the Bills
Americans welcome immigrants who contribute to their welfare—less so refugees and others who come at a cost.
The Pastness of the Past
For Gordon Wood, no era has a monopoly on truth. Truth is merely the epiphenomenon of the era that produced it.
The Warmonger
Stalin saw an advantage in the renewal of global hostilities, so he helped facilitate them.
Overcoming the House Divided
Lincoln’s unprecedented acceptance of black Americans reflected his conviction about the fundamental equality of all human beings.
Deep-State Constitutionalism
Individual natural rights are essential to assure that the “common good” is genuinely common to all.
Head of State
A brave attempt to rescue the term “greatness” as a meaningful metric of political achievement.
Pursuing Happiness
Tracing the radically different conceptions of human flourishing that have been in contention over the past half-millennium can help us acquire self-knowledge.
For the Sake of Argument
Our politics is now a clash of rival dogmas rather than anything our grandfathers would have recognized as argument.
Millennial Malformation
The Digital Age and postmodernist mentors set Millennials up to fail.
Essays
Father of His Country
George Washington’s American nationalism.
Boris Johnson’s Party Politics
Is the prime minister who saved Brexit headed for the exit?
In the Red
Our glidepath to insolvency.
A Tragedy of Errors
The war in Ukraine in context and perspective.
The Right Now
What Trump hath wrought…and revealed.
Sickness of the Mind, Triumph of the Soul
Dostoevsky at the pinnacle of modern literature.
The Gate to the Garden
How Coleridge and Wordsworth recovered from radicalism.
What Does Postmodernism Really Amount To?
Even its practitioners don’t know.
The CRB Interview
PRESENT AT THE CREATION
Norman Podhoretz on the rise of the anti-American Left.
Parthian Shot
Oscars Wild
The relative dignity, restraint, and sanity of the Academy Awards are long gone.
Shadow Play
A Whiff of Munich
The ghost of Neville Chamberlain.
From the Editor's Desk
The Supreme Court Leak
The overturning of Roe v. Wade will intensify the battle between the progressives’ constitution and the founders’ Constitution.
