Though Wolfe’s arguments are complex and wide ranging, they frequently fail to hold up under scrutiny
Stuart KlenkFebruary 1, 2023
For the last several years liberalism has seemed at risk of being added to the endangered ideologies list, perhaps soon…
Jeffery Tyler SyckJanuary 4, 2023
Burke is a defender of the institutions of Christian civilization. Understanding this liberates us from the need to defend failing institutions simply because those institutions happen to exist.
Timothy CutlerNovember 9, 2022
Jocelyn Cesari’s latest—”We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations”—will take readers’ full attention. She does not suffer fools, either in style or substance, but those who come with a bit of background and an honest and sincere interest are not likely to find many her match.
Robert JoustraJune 14, 2022
That Russia’s invasion should have come as a surprise attack largely derives from the idealistic excess of the democratic peace theory.
Mark R. RoyceMarch 25, 2022
Reinhold Niebuhr differs from twenty-first-century foreign policy realists in that he viewed an accurate and explicit portrait of human nature as the crucial starting point for any theory of international relations.
Colin DueckSeptember 30, 2021
Some idealists may blame the selfishness of wealthy governments and their citizens for COVAX’s failure, but the organizers should have considered mankind’s selfish nature when designing the program.
Mark MeltonJune 17, 2021
“The Unbroken Thread” by Sohrab Ahmari shows us that our human capacities and loves are not and cannot be strictly contained within the horizons of philosophic liberalism.
Kevin VanceJune 2, 2021
It is childish to demand the real world conform to one’s fancy; it is childlike to learn about the real world by playing in an imaginary one. Both the idealist and the cynical realist are childish. The Christian realist, by contrast, should be childlike.
Richard JordanApril 14, 2021