A correspondence on The Chicago Thinker’s American Identity Summit.
A correspondence on the past, present, and future of the New Right.
The rigor and rapture of speaking in tongues.
A courtroom, Steinbeck, and our duty to forgive.
On the distortions of freedom.
Tocqueville and the virtue of action.
A correspondence on vibe coding an Authoritarian Consolidation Index.
A correspondence on John J. Mearsheimer’s global punchlines.
The past, present, and future of water in the West.
Hannah Arendt and freedom from politics.
On false realities and real people.
A correspondence on the New York political scene.
Running, suffering, and Sontag.
A correspondence on conspicuous absences.
On shoddy towers and disenchantment.
On the valley of progress.
Loneliness and artificially intelligent boyfriends.
A correspondence from France.
On national trauma and political disillusionment.
The bind faced by America’s universities
Lessons learned from the city of the future.
James Bennet and the new digital media
Hobbes, Rawls, and the nation conceived in liberty.
On loving a country’s ends, not the country itself.
The utopianism behind conspiracy thinking.
On A Farewell to Arms.
The many faces of The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression.
On patriotism as alliance against a common enemy.
Time and the contemplative life.
The limits of reason, from Bollywood to Isaiah Berlin.
A new understanding of digital hatred.
Europe’s attempt to wash its hands of dirty farmers.
Bringing LGBT Catholics under the Church’s social contract.
A critique of commodified resistance.
The ethics of artificially intelligent weapons.
On agreeing with your friends.
The undemocratic wages of state secrecy.
Rediscovering Simone Weil’s critique of liberalism.
Our confused church-state discourse and its Jeffersonian roots.
Our generation’s struggle with individualist activism.
Truth, politics, and the polarized media.