Readers’ Choice

My Judgment on Nuremberg

JOHN M. GRONDELSKI

There remains a “black legend” that Nazi Germany was a state run by extremist Christian nationalists. But the truth is that Nazi Germany was run by men who much abandoned their Christianity in favor of Nietzschean power ideologies.

How to Become a Low-Tech Family

PECO & RUTH GASKOVSKI

From the December issue: Time limits simply don’t work. Digital experiences can make the real world feel so unbearably dull that, even after only a little time online, kids will keep longing to return to their devices.

The Department of Education May Be Gone, Finally

MARK BAUERLEIN

The chances of a near-total elimination of this nearly fifty-year-old bureaucracy may be pretty good. But one thing must be spared: the National Center for Education Statistics.

The Catholic Bill Buckley

ROGER KIMBALL

Bill was the opposite of ostentatious in his religious observances. But any close friend could see that prayer occupied an important place in the spiritual economy of his life.

Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage

ALGIS VALIUNAS

From the December issue: Percy’s mind and heart and soul were swayed variously by a friend at Chapel Hill who quietly got up at dawn to attend daily Mass, a Catholic sanatorium patient who defended his faith with steamroller logic, and the gathering awareness that the faith offered a wisdom unavailable to the scientific method.