Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

Note: “Explainer” is our newest addition to the series of features on Off the Agenda. Here editor Drew Dyck will tackle current ideas, movements, or whatever else people are talking about. He doesn’t ...

BOOK EXCERPT: ‘While many feel rudderless and the temptation to despair is real, the truth can be known and has revealed itself within the person of Christ.’ Church tower of the Basilica of the ...

From Insurgent Notes #27, May 2025. Where there had been in 1960 earnest, crew-cut, and bobbed-hair liberal supporters of JFK and Young Republicans, there were in 1970 Trotskyists, Stalinists, Maoists ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. On Sunday, the literary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson—an intellectual titan and one ...

The spiral staircase that winds you through the home, left and right, mimics the feeling of descending these same hills.

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...