Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did
A.O. Scott at New York Times
History
John Crowe Ransom on Leisure
It's hard to pick a favorite essay from I'll Take My Stand, but the lead essay by John Crowe Ransom, "Unreconstructed but Unregenerate," is a leading candidate. The essay spends ample time criticizing what Joseph Pieper also condemned: the world of "total work.
Not Just Tulsa: Black Neighborhoods Were Often Destroyed by Urban-Renewal Policies
Howard Husock at City Journal
The Puritan Spirit of America's Civil War
David Samuels at UnHerd
A Micro History of the Holy Roman Empire
The HRE started when Charlemagne received the emperor crown from Pope Leo in 800 or when Otto got the crown from Pope John in 962. The HRE then went through twists and turns, up and downs, was controlled by the Hapsburg family starting in 1438, until it was dissolved under
The Chicago Renaissance
The Renaissance led Baltimorean H.L. Mencken to call Chicago "the literary capital of the U.S."
David Hume's Warning on Forever Wars
Daniel Klein at Law & Liberty
The First Catholic Cleric to Go Over to Saruman (and the Left Hemisphere)?
In the early nineteenth century, the “tormented, headstrong Breton priest”[1] Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais changed fundamental Christian doctrines to justify socialism. His career illustrates the damage that can be done by presenting socialism as authentic religious doctrine, especially when an individual or group has established the illusion of orthodoxy
JFK, Serial Killers, and Cults: The Fall of Heroes
The rise of fear and absurdity in American society from the sixties to the era of COVID-19
The World Turned Upside Down: Tom Holland's "Dominion"
Matthew Rose at First Things