It’s now 250 years since America declared her independence and embarked on the experiment of fashioning a nation dedicated to liberty. Do those long-ago events and the deliberations of men who wore ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault. He was influential in his lifetime, but forty-two years after his death, while contemporaries such as Derrida have faded from view, ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Steven B. Smith joins in to discuss his book, On Statesmanship. The conversation is embedded below.

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. I had been working in journalism for about two years when Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015. I was ...

William Lane Craig has recently caused some consternation by saying he does not confess the faith of the Nicene Creed. The reaction is understandable. Nicene orthodoxy, after all, is the faith ...

Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth ...

The fall of Cambridge wunderkind Jason Arday was the British press story of the summer. To any perceptive onlooker, his tall tales of overcoming numerous impossible odds to scale the highest heights ...

Recent weeks have seen a great deal of discussion and a fair bit of controversy about classical education, in particular the study of the Great Books. There have been arguments about the best way to ...

Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a German-Jewish philosopher. His life and death are the stuff of legend. Born to an assimilated Jewish ...

I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian history, would ...