Imagine a neighborhood that has experienced high crime rates for years. A local “neighborhood watch” group forms, but it only talks about resolutions without taking any action. Criminals are found guilty but then immediately released back onto…
Bad history books litter the shelves of classrooms, bookstores, and libraries everywhere. Beyond mere factual inaccuracies, bad works of history also pretend to neutrality, prefer a Marxist materialism to messy human motivations, and misalign…
In the fall of 2017, I was invited to attend the Ramsey Colloquium in Washington, a gathering convened by R.R. Reno to discuss a paper by Philip Pilkington titled “Our Broken Neoliberal Orthodoxy.” The setting was a dingy conference room in a…
The global discussion on artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technical debate and has become a first-rate political conflict. In 2024, the European Union enforced the EU AI Act, the world’s most comprehensive AI regulatory framework,…
Pope Leo XIV said the principal threat facing both religion and science today is the denial of the existence of objective truth. He made this statement on May 11 during an audience granted to members of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, which…
“All these things around us have been seminally and primordially created in the very fabric, as it were, or texture of the elements; but they require the right occasion actually to emerge into being.”—Augustine This line from the great…
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…
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