The Challenge of American Patriotism in the 21st Century
If there is one distinctly modern pathology which needs more attention from conservatives no less than liberals, that pathology is hypermobility, rootlessness, what the late philosopher Roger…
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Sabine Hossenfelder. New York: Basic Books, 2018. Sabine Hossenfelder’s little book Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray asks…
America: A Progressive Coming-Together?
Harvard’s Robert Putnam is one of the most creative and persuasive voices of our times. He is author of the peerless 1995 research article, “Bowling Alone: America’s…
René Girard’s Challenge to Fusionism
Modern American conservatism rose in the 1950s under the leadership of William F. Buckley Jr. and Frank S. Meyer at the old National Review magazine, culminated in 1980 with…
Understanding Voegelin’s Critique of Locke
No matter how conservative intellectuals try, they just do not seem able to escape John Locke. Jonah Goldberg’s well-received Suicide of the West proudly called America’s Declaration of…