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2021-07-07T15:12:05-05:00

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On Nationalisms Through Time

Last updated on: July 7, 2021 at 3:12 pm By John Ehrett

Not long ago, I finished reading Samuel Goldman’s insightful (and already widely-discussed) new book After Nationalism; Being American in an Age of Division. Goldman’s book is a thoughtful extended essay on the idea of nationalism (as distinct from “patriotism” or simple love for one’s homeland); for Goldman, nationalism entails that if the motto e pluribus unum—one out of many—is indeed meaningful, the unum must be some intelligible unifying principle or other. And with that in mind, Goldman proceeds to trace... Read more

Political Theory

2021-06-25T11:28:00-05:00

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Tradition, Angst, and Millennial Parenthood

Last updated on: June 25, 2021 at 11:28 am By John Ehrett

Over at the ever-interesting Law & Liberty site, Rachel Lu has a joint review of three recent volumes—Helen Andrews’s Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, and Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind. Unusually, I happen to have read (and enjoyed) all three of these books (I wrote in more detail about Ahmari’s and Olmstead’s... Read more

Culture

2021-06-17T19:09:25-05:00

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What Does the Scholastic Method Get Right and Wrong?

Last updated on: June 17, 2021 at 7:09 pm By John Ehrett

A few days ago, Pater Edmund Waldstein—a Cistercian monk based out of Austria, and editor of the Josias website principally responsible for the contemporary mainstreaming of integralism—circulated a particularly fascinating document on Twitter: a decidedly premodern outline for a Great Books-based liberal arts college curriculum, one offering a far deeper dive into theology and political philosophy than usually provided at the undergraduate level. (Give yourself a few minutes to peruse it; it’s interesting and thought-provoking stuff.) I’m not an educator... Read more

Education

2021-06-09T11:48:05-05:00

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When “Worldview” Thinking Becomes a Crutch

Last updated on: June 9, 2021 at 11:48 am By John Ehrett

When I was a teenager, I enthusiastically attended programs like Worldview Academy and Summit Ministries (and am still broadly supportive of their work). But over the years, I’ve realized that “worldview”—the backbone concept of such programs—is a term that doesn’t show up much in my writing anymore, even though it’s positively ubiquitous in educated Protestant spaces. (Following Alasdair MacIntyre, I prefer “tradition,” which I think gets at the general underlying idea while reflecting a sense of rootedness.) At the risk... Read more

Culture

2021-05-27T18:58:15-05:00

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Grilling and the Common Good

Last updated on: May 27, 2021 at 6:58 pm By John Ehrett

Since moving to the suburbs a little over a year ago, I’ve grown increasingly fond of breaking out my Weber propane grill and cooking up some hamburgers or steaks (yes, I know I’m a stereotype incarnate). I like doing this for my family, but it’s even more enjoyable when guests are involved. There’s something about the fusion of technique (how long do I need to toast these buns?), companionship (who should we invite over?) and encounter with nature (the feel... Read more

Political Theory

2021-05-27T18:42:02-05:00

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Forgetting the Big Questions

Last updated on: May 27, 2021 at 6:42 pm By John Ehrett

A short while ago, I put out a review of Sohrab Ahmari’s fine new book The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos. Towards the end of that piece, I raised a slight quibble about whether it might be more argumentatively compelling to speak about tradition as something in which one participates, rather than as something to which one submits. At the same time, though, I realized—both then and now—that this might be sheer nitpicking.... Read more

Culture

2021-05-08T17:11:47-05:00

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A Note on “Masculine Fiction”

Last updated on: May 8, 2021 at 5:11 pm By John Ehrett

Like a decent number of other people I know, I began my fiction-reading journey as an adult with a transition from high-fantasy epics (Tolkien, Brooks, Jordan) to thick stacks of classics (Dickens, Brontë, Dumas). That shift was, in turn, followed up by forays into thriller fiction (Crichton, Cussler, Koontz) and more modern literary classics (Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Flannery O’Connor). But of course, there was other stuff too. Somewhere along the way, I couldn’t help but stumble across a genre of midcentury... Read more

Culture

2021-05-05T18:19:41-05:00

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Theonomy and Thumos

Last updated on: May 5, 2021 at 6:19 pm By John Ehrett

At the risk of stating the obvious, as a general rule I tend to think it’s prudent to evaluate contemporary controversies in light of analogous prior situations. The cultural challenges associated with human nature, after all, do tend to recur. And so for instance, whenever I read arguments for “Benedict Option” approaches to cultural retrenchment that don’t seriously reckon with American evangelicalism’s decades-long efforts to build out a comprehensive parallel polis, complete with its own schools and arts and publishing... Read more

Political Theory

2021-04-19T08:08:20-05:00

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Donegality

Last updated on: April 19, 2021 at 8:08 am By John Ehrett

While perusing Christiana Hale’s fine new book Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy, I was reminded of a delightful neologism first coined by Lewis scholar Michael Ward: “donegality.” In a nutshell, the word (which has a convoluted etymology not worth recounting here) refers to the sense of ascertainable place that a fictional work manages to create. If you’ve ever felt like Lewis’s Narnia, or J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was so plausible you... Read more

Imagination

2021-04-16T19:30:53-05:00

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Ad Astra Per Fidem: A Review of Christiana Hale’s “Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy”

Last updated on: April 16, 2021 at 7:30 pm By John Ehrett

As “science fiction” stories go, C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy—Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength—is a curious beast. The books don’t really follow genre norms—or even traditional narrative conventions—in any obvious way. Lewis’s characters have a propensity to deliver exposition dumps thick with biblical and medieval allusions, and (with the noted exception of the final volume), the volumes’ climaxes are understated affairs. And on the surface, the project as a whole seems to lack thematic continuity: the... Read more

Imagination

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