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March 16, 2020|Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society

Stuck With Decadence

by Ross Douthat|

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

February 24, 2020|Counterculture, From Dawn to Decadence, Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society

Our Exhausted Age

by Nathaniel Peters|

Cover of Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society
We’ve come to fear not chaos and disaster at the hands of our leaders, but simply failure and sclerosis.

September 13, 2018|Carlo Maria Viganò, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, Pope Francis, Ross Douthat, sexual abuse

The Archbishop and the Pope

by Paul Seaton|

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (TTStudio/Shutterstock.com).
The crisis demands answers to three questions: What did Francis know about McCarrick? When did he know? What did he do with that knowledge?

April 24, 2018|Amoris Laetitia, John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, Ross Douthat, To Change the Church, Vatican II

Pope Francis’s Mess

by Paul Seaton|

SAINT PETER'S SQUARE, VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - 2018/04/04: Pope Francis delivers his homily as he celebrates his Weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Pope Francis has succeeded in making a mess for his Church, especially in his understanding of its core teachings.

January 4, 2018|church, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, G.K. Chesterton, nones, religious identity, Ross Douthat

Evangelicals and the Challenge of Moral Education

by James R. Rogers|

In many senses the Evangelical movement has been wildly successful, but today's churches face an unexpected challenge in moral education.

Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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