Lionel Trilling in the Age of Enormity
A new collection of the eminent public intellectual’s letters reveals a man for his time — and ours.
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Mimicry, Mania, and Memory: René Girard Remembered
In a new biography of the anthropologist and literary critic, we glimpse the personal experiences that corresponded to his analysis of competitive envy.
Lincoln and Leo XIII against the Nietzscheans
Though from starkly different backgrounds, the two men remain pillars of the natural-law tradition, under assault from both the Left and the Right.
Two Great Literary Women in the Light of Today’s Sexual-Harassment Scandals
Remembering two great women writers, Jane Austen and Madame de Staël, in light of today’s sexual-harassment scandals.
Reductionism Rampant
Scientific reductionism, a relentlessly secular view of life, has baleful effects on our Western culture even as it leaves large areas unexplained.
The Restoration of the Person and the Uses of Memory
History and memory can save the sacredness of humanity from the onslaught of progressivism, scientism, and utilitarianism.
The Radical
Long after Henry David Thoreau’s death in 1862, Walt Whitman praised him for his “lawlessness -- his dissent -- his going his own absolute road let hell blaze all it ...
True and Beautiful
The text of Roger Scruton’s Charles E. Test memorial lectures at Princeton in 2013 is a virtual miracle of concision, depth, verbal precision, and justice.
The Heroism of E. D. Hirsch
For several decades E. D. Hirsch has fought and argued for knowledge-based education rather than the latest educational fads.
Christopher Ricks and the Saving Remnant
The greatest English-literature scholar of his generation has had to abandon his cherished institute for petty reasons.