Wealthy Americans are far from the most politically influential group—and what influence they do exert is often beneficent.

Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.

A personal reflection on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

In places like Prague and Vienna, local talent is nourishing the classical tradition.

America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap.

Michael Novak’s achievement

Reflections on Hillbilly Elegy

The French writer’s novels have foretold coming catastrophes with uncanny prescience—and his ambivalence toward modernity has much to teach us.

The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.

Her deed took place in a social universe that liberals have wrought, and whose realities they are too guilty or cowardly to acknowledge.

David Cronenberg’s movies reflect a world teeming with novel contagions, vast conspiracies, and radical therapies.

Can the Pacific Northwest prepare for the cataclysmic quake that’s coming?

They have become a potent American metaphor.

From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Why were the protests and riots of 2020 so explosive?

For Germans, neither memory nor amnesia can provide consolation.

Wealthy Americans are far from the most politically influential group—and what influence they do exert is often beneficent.

Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.

A personal reflection on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

In places like Prague and Vienna, local talent is nourishing the classical tradition.