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October 2020

October 21, 2020

Something Americans Can Agree On: Hating Modern Architecture

Americans are highly diverse and politically polarized. But they come to a remarkable consensus across...

October 20, 2020

The Mindset that Produced Slavery

To enslave another human being requires a certain mindset. And because slavery has been so...

October 14, 2020

Not Relativism but “Myside Bias”

The reason we can't agree with or persuade each other is not relativism, irrationalism, or...

October 01, 2020

The Racism and White Privilege of Critical Theory

"Critical theory" teaches that beliefs systems are manifestations of the will to power and are...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Becoming a Christian Dissident against Soft Totalitarianism

A new book by Rod Dreher sees the emergence of a "soft totalitarianism" and draws...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

The 6 Phases of Disaster

Experts have found that there are six phases of disaster, describing how individuals and communities...

July 2020

July 23, 2020

Defending Boyhood

Anthony Esolen's book "Defending Boys" explores the nature of boys, what they need, how they...

July 17, 2020

Progressives Canceling Each Other

Now liberals and progressives are also being canceled--censored, derided, fired--by their fellow liberals and progressives....

July 15, 2020

The Intelligentsia & Radical Politics

Why are so many academics and other "intellectuals" so radical in their politics, to the...

July 01, 2020

Overturning Taboos & Replacing Them with New Ones

Traditional taboos are being cast down, but they are being replaced by new ones. A...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A Second American Revolution?

The Canadian social scientist Eric Kaufman discusses the prospect of a "Second American Revolution," as...

June 19, 2020

Power and Moral Purity

The anti-racism protests are a repudiation of moral relativism, which is healthy. Human equality and...

June 15, 2020

Spiraling out of Control/Spiraling into Control

According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans believe that the country is "spiraling out...

June 12, 2020

Dog People, Cat People, and Religious People

A study of pet ownership has found that religious people are just as likely to...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

The Lockdown Is Helping Relationships

Yes, the coronavirus lockdown has been terrible. But a study has found that, on the...

May 25, 2020

Memory

Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives for us and...

April 2020

April 03, 2020

Our Inability to Sit in a Quiet Room Alone

As the days of coronavirus quarantine turn into weeks and the prospect of months, we...

March 2020

March 16, 2020

The Postmodern Epidemic

The coronavirus outbreak has been called "the first postmodern pandemic", though the author didn't say...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Serious Questions but Trivial Answers

People who have left Christianity often tell about how, in their church-going days, they had...

January 2020

January 22, 2020

The movie "1917" appears to have been photographed in one long continuous shot, without the...

January 15, 2020

The Psychology of Hate

"Hate" has become another all-purpose term of opprobrium, like "Nazi." If you oppose someone for...

January 09, 2020

Luther’s Remedy for Self-Absorption

Peter Burfeind writes about the connection between self-love and melancholy, tracing today's separation between the...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

U.S. Leads the World in Single Parenthood

The United States has the world's highest rates of children who live with only one...

December 10, 2019

Guilt and Politics

Guilt is a universal feeling, since none of us fallen creatures can live up to...

December 09, 2019

Are Certain Substances–Such As Those We Abuse–Evil?

Is bad theology that has been taken over into secular thinking--namely, the view that substances...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Home Alone

Americans increasingly have stopped going out, choosing to just stay home, preferably by themselves. This...

November 21, 2019

Erasing Bad Memories

We are the sum of our experiences throughout our lives, and our memories continue to...

November 20, 2019

The Belief that Being Alive Is Always Bad

Anti-Natalism began as a movement to stop having children for environmentalist reasons. But now some...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

The Politics of Feelings

Americans are extremely polarized politically. But this is not just a matter of ideology. Advocates...

October 09, 2019

How Shrinking and Broken Families Give Us Identity Politics

Mary Eberstadt, one of our most perceptive cultural analysts, shows how weakened family connections have...