Cosplay

Richard Thompson Ford

Has social media changed cosplay or simply supercharged it?

For Better, For Worse

Jonathan Clarke

Our founding principles do not conduce to a strong concept of national character.

A Tale of Two College Towns

Phil Christman

The public university and the small-town college are the best and worst of higher education options.

A Passive Counter-Revolution

Nick Burns

What the right now confronts on cultural terrain is a long domesticated radicalism.

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“The Character of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”

Where we are and who we are becoming.


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

Body and Soul at Table

Wilfred M. McClay

Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.

Our Pets, Ourselves

Christine Rosen

A turn to animals for emotional support is hardly surprising, even if it is not ideal.

What Is It Like to Be a Man?

Phil Christman

What is this thing we’re trying to be?

The European Experiment

Zygmunt Bauman

We still live in the post-Westphalian era, licking the as yet unhealed wounds the cuius regio.