The Genius Famine, by Bruce Charlton and Edward Dutton, answered many burning questions that have arisen for me over the course of several decades that have importance…
Mark Bauerlein. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youths to Dangerous Adults. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway. 2022. Deep within the “word hoard” of Baby Boomer…
It is a widely accepted view in modern political philosophy that European civilization contains at its core a dichotomy of Judeo-Christian theological understanding of the world, on…
Let me say a few things about art and truth first of all. The Enlightenment — by which I mean that mass of thinking and idea-mongering that…
Dates vary, when people try to characterize a phase of culture, but for (let us say) the past 50 years, opinion-shapers in our culture have functioned under…
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” – Aldo…
Diversity as Self-Nullifying Culture, in the anthropological sense, is a combination of language and traditions involving values, ideas about education, cooking, family life and public life. Culture…
Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. The Multigraph Collective. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2018. Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading…
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. 20th Anniversary. Neil Postman with a new introduction by Andrew Postman. New York: Penguin Books,…
In seeking to explain the evolution of the American democracy, historians typically give great emphasis to the step-by-step enlargement of the franchise to vote. Thus, the expansion…
The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia. Roger Kimball. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2012. The Fortunes of Permanence explores…
Redemption Through Art “There are two possibilities: to comment on events with words, and to make events through words.” With this phrase, Kurt Hiller characterized in 1916…
Apocalyptic Expressionism in the 1920s During the 1920s Johannes R. Becher and many other expressionists attempted to give shape to the new man by modeling him after…