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March 18, 2026

Just War Theory Yesterday and Today

For an ancient people, the Romans were atypical in their concern about the moral justification of their wars. Conquest, they believed, was at least potentially nefas (“wicked”) and risked the community’s suffering religious pollution and divine disapprobation. Continue Reading...
March 17, 2026

What Exactly Are the ‘Common Goods’?

At some point in their economics curriculum, every undergraduate will learn the “guns and butter” model of trade. The idea is simple: Countries have limited resources and can devote them either to military production or to consumer goods. Continue Reading...
March 12, 2026

How Frankenstein and The Bride! Make the Battle of the Sexes Worse

Adapting Merry Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein is practically a tradition in Hollywood. As is the freedom in adapting it: Consider the Universal Monsters’ classic, which turned the original’s well-spoken creation of mad scientist Victor Frankenstein into a grunting monster with neck bolts, to making of him a comedic figure (Young Frankenstein) to transforming the whole tale into a cheesy supernatural action flick (I, Frankenstein). Continue Reading...
March 11, 2026

The Teacher as Revolutionary

Michael S. Rose’s The Subversive Art of a Classical Education: Reclaiming the Mind in an Age of Speed, Screens, and Skill-Drills is the latest addition to the growing genre of books about classical education. Continue Reading...
March 10, 2026

How Sabbath Laws Reveal the Moral Logic of Markets

Modern arguments about wealth and inequality often presuppose that Scripture offers little guidance beyond a general call to generosity, after which technocrats may improvise distribution schemes according to political fashion. Consequently, biblical economics becomes a set of pious slogans rather than a coherent moral vision. Continue Reading...
March 05, 2026

Hamnet: Family Life in the 21st Century

Chloé Zhao received four nominations and won two Oscars, Best Director and Best Picture, for Nomadland (2020) and has since become the major female director in the English-speaking world. Her new movie, Hamnet, about William Shakespeare losing his son and (ostensibly) writing his most famous tragedy, has been nominated for eight awards. Continue Reading...
February 26, 2026

Bring Back Your Dead

One of the strangest of many strange 21st-century phenomena is the adoption of the ideas of 20th-century left-wing thinkers by the New Right. From Marcuse and Baudrillard to Jameson and Camus, left thinkers have exerted significant influence on the contemporary postliberal and even anti-liberal right. Continue Reading...