Students are invited to submit an essay for our 2025 essay contest.
The man of faith knows that even the deepest darkness may be irradiated
In Between on the Camino de Santiago
Whether the remains of St. James lie there or not, most of our band will likely return again to travel a new way to Santiago.
Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O’Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentimental portraits of faith—it tests faith.
From Postliberalism to Preliberalism: A Review of The Church Against the State
Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling him that he’s got all the right impulses and is coming to the wrong conclusions.
Sowing Winter Wheal: Preparing Seed and Soil for the New Era
As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.
The Hidden Sorrow of Easter
Christ’s resurrection offers assurance in the face of inevitable, implacable death. But it doesn’t come easily
An Inside Job
It’s time to give the kids a better life script, to give them something more to aspire to than slumping over a screen for the rest of their lives.
Rooting for Front Porch Journalism
This year the big boys dominated.
In Praise of Old Fencerows
Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible
Andrew Tate and the Right we Need
Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.
Lectors at the Lectern
I moved on, but I realized in that moment that I hadn’t adequately answered the student’s question
America’s Failure to Achieve Posture Perfection
Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.
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Haidt’s book is a tour de force. I can give it no higher praise than to say I wish we could put this book in the hands of every parent, teacher, school administrator, schoolboard member, and legislator in the country. Haidt convincingly shows that mobile technology—mostly but not exclusively smartphones—does not just correlate with all these dire mental health trends but indeed contributes to causation.
A Country Boy Can Thrive
You can leave your corner of the country without escaping it. And these memoirs testify to the importance of bringing something back.
Brass Spittoon: Conservatism, Inc.
Patrick Deneen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeff Polet respond to J.D. Vance's recent American Mind essay "End the Globalization Gravy Train" and consider the prospects for postliberal conservatism.