Public Discourse

Carl R. Trueman has written yet another lucid and penetrating book that gets to the heart of our present cultural and spiritual discontent. Published earlier this year to critical acclaim,

In recent years, seminar-based education has enjoyed a modest but real recovery. Classical schools have multiplied. Great Books programs, both in secondary schools and in colleges, continue to attract families and students who want something different from the dominant forms of contemporary education. The Great Hearts network of classical charter schools

The popularity of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton” has generated a surprising reversal (though not for the first time) in the relative reputations of Alexander Hamilton and his (usual) antagonist, Thomas Jefferson. Miranda’s show, inspired by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, resuscitates its subject’s standing from the elitist image with which Americans had been presented...

This significant anniversary year for our nation invites consideration of the principles of the American Revolution. We should also, however, reflect on the structures that put these principles into practice. The year 1776, in addition to being the anniversary of the Declaration, was also an important year for American constitutionalism. While the Constitution would not be dr...

The internet is abuzz with talk of male yearning. Of course, there’s no reason the phrase should mean anything to you unless you’re chronically online. But as a woman born in 1997—right on the cusp of the Millennial/Zoomer generational divide—who writes about culture for a living, I’ve not been able to overlook the latest cultural trend: men who yearn. 

I started ...