3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (667+ words) Matthew Lee Anderson: You begin by arguing that the culture wars are real and important. As a frame, “culture war” has governed American public discourse for the last forty years or so. What are the similarities and differences that you…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (185+ words) Too woke. Too conservative. Everyone has a take on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and everyone is eager to share it. I won’t offer you a take. For one, I don’t think Nolan’s filmmaking can be easily filtered through any given…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1039+ words) Francis Joseph Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he is also Affiliate Professor of Political Science and Resident Scholar in the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR). In May 2025 he was appointed by the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (468+ words) In defending the president’s authority over independent regulatory commissions, Slaughter restores the electric current of democratic responsibility, making commissioners “accountable to the President, and the President to the people.” According to the logic of the Constitution, “the buck stops” with…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (228+ words) It may sound absurd to suggest that social conservatism is in a stronger position in 2026 than, say, in 2010. Add to this the role that transgenderism has played in causing no small percentage of the American population to recoil at its…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (164+ words) Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this paper was delivered under the title “Lewis and the Revolution” as part of a panel entitled “Lewis and the World” at the Ciceronian Society Annual Conference at Creighton University, March 12-14, 2026. Lewis also occasionally…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (193+ words) The neoconservative writer Irving Kristol defended the search for well-being in the ordinary places of bourgeois society conservatives tend to seek it, but he also saw that a healthy and vibrant society needs more: As al-Gharbi points out, in a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1414+ words) Editor’s note: This essay was adapted from a lecture given in May 2026 at the University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Anscombe was an incredibly wide-ranging philosopher, and in the early years of her career she had no interest per se in ethical…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (225+ words) “Death to Israel!” she yelled, mid-stride, as she passed our debate table and disappeared into the crowd. I recognized her—a fellow student from my time on campus. Just minutes earlier, I had invited her to sit down with me…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (873+ words) And how exactly have abortion activists accomplished this? How have they convinced a majority of the population that abortion—stopping a beating heart and dismembering a living human being —is healthcare? How have they been able to make average citizens…...