What made George Washington so great? This is the question asked by H.W. Brands in the last chapter of his new biography, American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington. If one made a list of qualities that make an effective leader,…
One of the most familiar sounds in Nigeria is not the generator humming through a blackout or the impatient horn in standstill traffic. It is the shrug that follows obvious failure. A transformer explodes and a whole neighborhood disappears into…
Roger Scruton often wrote of oikophobia, the phenomenon, so prevalent in the modern West, of distrusting one’s own home, society, and cultural inheritance. The culture of repudiation is one-directional, however, valorizing “the other” at the…
Debates about gender within and without the Church tend to operate on a hidden fear: If gender is real in some way, then that might lead to an artificially rigid understanding of gender roles—for example, women must stay in the kitchen and men…
One of the first hurdles in designing a course is assigning readings. Digital databases, book scanning, and ebooks have empowered teachers to assemble any combination of chapters, journals, and primary sources, but having so many choices can be…
The final dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 heralded the victory of Western democratic societies over communism and the ideologies of collectivism. Proponents of the market economy now had definitive proof that central economic planning…
Young men are increasingly turning to that “Old Time Religion.” Faith is becoming more important to young men, who now surpass young women in saying religion is “very important” to their lives, a new poll from Gallup finds. More young men today…
In Rockefeller Center stands the famous statue of Prometheus, the benefactor of mankind, bringing fire from heaven. In Hesiod’s telling, Prometheus is accompanied by Pandora; while Prometheus brings art and learning, she brings all the pains and…
Are scientific advancements always ethically neutral? The ethics, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder. Consider this experiment—fictional rather than real—of keeping alive a head severed from its body. In 1925, Alexander Belyaev, a sci-fi…
The first full-length biography of the Supreme Court justice presents us with a quiet man of clarity and consistency more focused on the law than on obtaining celebrity status. Read More… I was finishing my last year of law school when the…
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