Malcolm Muggeridge, Marked by Mobility and a Search for Morality
The British writer, journalist, and public intellectual died 30 years ago next month. He sought to overcome darkness within and outside himself.
On Communist Executions
Andrew Higgins’s excellent article needs to be supplemented by Ms. Sevander’s work.
An Eloquent Witness and Wit: David Berlinski on Human Nature
Persons are not gods, but neither are they robots.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation After a Half Century
The 1960s series on art and literature through the ages remains a brilliant (and popular) masterwork, a celebration with a tragic edge.
Literature as Praise, Resistance, and Consolation: Part I
Every coherent writer praises something, implicitly or explicitly.
History as Wisdom: Thomas Carlyle vs. the ‘Perfectibilarians’
The most memorable critic of ‘Enlightenment’ rationalism was also a visionary moralist.
James Davison Hunter and the Inadequacy of Naturalism
Voluble academic philosophers and social scientists promote astoundingly reductive views of the human person.
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.
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.