One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had an uneasy feeling that something was amiss—seriously “off,” in fact, though at first I wasn’t sure what ...

Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Homeric poem, I have yet to see anyone ask this simple question. Musk has ...

The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope, and it is hard to imagine any scholar, however learned, who would not ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images of death and dying that disturbed her sleep and haunted her conscience. She didn’t need ...

St. Paul’s Cathedral has come up with a novel way to fill the pews: It is becoming a concert venue. Under a newly inked agreement, London nightclub Fabric will be the “exclusive partner for ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Theodore Dalrymple joins in to discuss his recent book, Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder ...

In his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529 that Machiavelli’s The Prince had inspired King Henry VIII to break with Rome. The ...

I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As a teenager, I was given a copy of Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon by a well-meaning family friend. It ...

Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. That’s the way things were when I was a boy in ...

The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in light of the Jason Arday scandal, and the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 ...

Dario Amodei wants to give society time to deliberate about artificial intelligence. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the head of Anthropic’s proposal, made in his recent essay, “We Must Pace ...