Lincoln’s Lessons for Turbulent Times
This essay was originally published in Law & Liberty on March 8, 2022. Even in our age of “cancellation,” Abraham Lincoln retains an exalted…
The Destructive Impact of Cultural Heideggerianism
Martin Heidegger promised to make man the Master of Being. Perhaps we should blame Heidegger, not Marx, for putting our culture on the path to decline. The Irish critic…
The Terminally Ill Academy
Some liberal academics understand that call-out culture has gone too far. Their proposed solutions are woefully inadequate. Free speech is compromised and perhaps dying in plain sight. This is…
Can We Contain the Dragon?
This essay was originally published on January 13, 2022 by Law & Liberty. The United States has coasted on its Cold War success for thirty years while…
The Willmoore Kendall Story
This book review was originally published by Law & Liberty on November 18, 2021. I date every book that I read. Why? My stock answer, cut from…
À la Carte Feminism
Editor’s Note: This review is part of a symposium on Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision. It originally was published by Law…
How the Admissions Office Ruins Our Kids
Matt Feeney’s fine book, Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age, explores what happens when families allow the heartless world into their haven.
LISTEN: Dr. Scott Yenor on The Recovery of Family Life
In this ongoing series, Ryan Williams, President of The Claremont Institute, interviews prominent scholars in the Claremont Institute’s orbit. Dr. Scott Yenor, Professor of Political Science at Boise State University…
What Politicized the Supreme Court?
Amid swirling controversy over President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments and the Biden Administration’s judicial commission, Ilya Shapiro’s Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s…
But Thou Shalt Endure
A review of The Decline of Nations: Lessons for Strengthening America at Home and in the World.