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Latest Issue Spring 2021

God and Man at Google

James Poulos

In 1999, asked by the BBC whether the internet was “just a tool,” rock star David Bowie responded: “No, it’s an alien life form.” Bowie saw that the advent of digital technology as our dominant communications medium would have “unimaginable” consequences...

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There Goes Robert E. Lee

His eclipse in American life.

Christopher Caldwell

For months, the businessmen, community activists, and other local boosters who make up the non-profit Lee Highway Alliance in Arlington County, Virginia, have been working to rename the county’s stretch of U.S. Highway 29, and thereby to repudiate the man whose name it bears. Read More

SJW Seeks Trans Übermensch

Social Justice is America’s unofficial state religion.

David Azerrad

G. K. Chesterton once described America as “a nation with the soul of a church.” That church used to be Protestant. Then it became Judeo-Christian. Today, Social Justice is America’s unofficial state religion... Read More

The Rolling Revolution

Family life today is threatened by a theoretical proposition.

Harvey Mansfield

It will be hard to do justice to the virtues of this excellent book—its comprehensiveness, helpful novelties, surprising insights, humor without indignation, philosophy, common sense, and its importance today—but I will give it a try... Read More

– From the Archives –

The Continuing Crisis

The election and its aftermath.

Michael Anton

Five people died in the chaos on Capitol Hill on January 6. An unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, Ashli Babbitt, was shot point-blank by a Capitol Police officer... Read More

The Original Fascist

From movement to epithet.

Angelo Codevilla

Today, the adjective “fascist” is an epithet—often mixed promiscuously with “white supremacist,” “sexist,” etc.—that the ruling class uses to besmirch whoever challenges them, and to provide emotional fuel for cowering, marginalizing, and disempowering conservatives...Read More

Soul, Man

The soul is the most paradoxical thing in the world.

Glenn Ellmers

The soul is the most difficult and paradoxical thing in the world. In classical thought the soul is our form, which activates and animates the matter of our bodies and makes us rational and free beings...Read More

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