From the archive, three articles pushing back on conservative orthodoxies.
PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
H. W. Longfellow
Every so often, it’s important to critique popular pieties—even those held by our allies. From the archive, three conservative authors reframe conservative orthodoxies.
In recent years I have come to suspect that the very source of the decline of the study of the great books comes not in spite of the lessons of the great books, but is to be found in the very arguments within a number of the great books.
Christian compatriots of mine are wrong to cling so tightly to sexual orientation, confusing our unprecedented and unsuccessful apologia for chastity with its eternal foundation. We do not need “heteronormativity” to defend against debauchery.
We will recover a culture worth having only if we tune our radio dials to humility, as persons and as peoples. Our work is not to “defend the West.” That’s idol worship. Our work is repentance, which means transformation. We have to be prepared to die—and thus reborn.
