Published Date: October 1, 2026 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
The 25-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. wrote God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom” with an appreciation of the contributions made by leading universities in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere in the building of our civilization. His special concern was with the civic order, and the role of institutions of […]
Published Date: August 28, 2026 | Topics: Reviews and Commentaries
We’re hearing a lot, and will hear more, about the late Dolly Parton — her remarkable personal story of rising from poverty in the East Tennessee hills to international celebrity and wealth; her extraordinary vocal gifts and songwriting talent; her wit and self-deprecating humor; her kindness, compassion and exceptional generosity; her nearly sixty-year marriage to […]
Published Date: August 27, 2026 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties
Why intellectual humility, truth-seeking, and a willingness to engage those who disagree with us are essential to preserving civil discourse and protecting our fundamental liberties. A universal and ineradicable feature of the human condition is our fallibility. We can be, and all of us sometimes are, wrong about things. Even when doing our best to […]
Published Date: August 18, 2026 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
The law allows abortion up to the moment of birth, and its defenders turn a blind eye to evil Lindsay Clancy is a woman facing multiple murder charges in Massachusetts, one of which is for the premeditated killing of her 8-month-old baby. It’s a tragic story involving mental illness and the drugs intended to treat […]
Published Date: August 1, 2026 | Topics: Philosophy
Moral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they leadto the same result. Truth is under threat today from two opposing impulses. The first is subjectivism, or relativism: the denial of the existence of objective truth or the possibility of ever attaining it. This proposition may seem abstract, but it has […]
Published Date: July 5, 2026 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
The question of whether the Supreme Court should revisit the decision, as it did Roe, is on the table. Eleven years ago, in a 5–4 ruling, the Supreme Court announced its discovery of a hitherto unknown constitutional right — a right to same-sex marriage. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court invalidated state laws — enacted by the people’s elected […]
Published Date: June 29, 2026 | Topics: Reviews and Commentaries
By Sofia Cipriano In April, James Percival, the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was heckled at an event hosted by the conservative Federalist Society at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. Over 150 demonstrators attempted to shut down Percival’s speech, chanting and carrying signs criticizing the Trump administration’s policy on immigration. Percival later […]
Published Date: June 26, 2026 | Topics: Reviews and Commentaries
One of the country’s foremost Catholic intellectuals weighs in on political polarization, the role of Catholic life in the U.S., and the state of the great ‘American experiment’ as the nation approaches this landmark anniversary. As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the occasion provides an opportunity not only […]
Published Date: June 21, 2026 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
Most reviews of the vice president’s new memoir, ‘Communion,’ have been shaped by the writers’ opinions of his politics. I choose to take him at his word. What makes J.D. Vance tick? Most Americans, whether or not they’ve read J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, have some idea of his remarkable journey from poverty in Middletown, […]
Published Date: May 11, 2026 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs, Reviews and Commentaries
Kudos to Vanderbilt and Dartmouth for abandoning a longstanding practice on graduation day. Something unusual is afoot on two campuses. Vanderbilt University last week had as its commencement speaker former American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks, a political conservative. Soon, Dartmouth College will confer an honorary doctorate on Greg Lukianoff, the president of the […]