Leftists used to focus on economics, but today they fixate on nonbinary genders, microaggressions, and pronouns. Woke progressivism may seem silly, but Jordan B. Cooper, in his new book, Makers of the Modern Mind: A Guide to the Thinkers Who…
(This article appears in the Winter 2026 issue of the Coolidge Review.) One of the epic stories of World War II is how Russian troops held the Stalingrad tractor factory against repeated assaults by German units from August to October 1942. That…
Dana Milbank was once one of the most insufferable of The Washington Post’s reporters and columnists. For decades, Milbank gained a reputation for serial exaggeration and distortion, such as misrepresenting his interview subjects. His partisan…
Most Oscar movies have no audience and few admirers and are instantly forgotten (name last year’s winner). One exception is Marty Supreme, which has just received nine Oscar nominations. More surprising, it has already reached into the IMDb Top…
A question from an inquiring mind: “How can we who live in this age of podcasts, email newsletters, Substack opinions, social media digressions, and 24/7 streaming distinguish between mere information and wisdom?” Hmm. Four decades ago, when we…
The freedom to select a spouse and not have one imposed upon us is something we take for granted. Yet we’re still learning about the great personal and social benefits conferred by this medieval upheaval to ancient practice. Read More… Western…
While reading Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life one can’t help but recall Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Written just after WWII, Pieper asked what new world the Allies would build in the…
Why Democracy Needs the Rich by John O. McGinnis arrives at a moment when public discourse treats wealth less as a social fact and more as a moral pathology. Consequently, McGinnis writes into an atmosphere thick with slogans, suspicion, and…
On January 5 in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff to president Donald Trump, defended the administration’s alarming embrace of military intervention in Venezuela and imperialistic aspirations more…
What we call Western civilization is in a precarious state today, challenged by the loss of religious values, a threat from aroused Islamic radicalism, romantic notions of “collectivism,” and a dangerous decline in the value of freedom of speech…
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