Genocide?

Philip Jenkins is very worried about the consequences of a possible US intervention in Syria.

Compromise

Fr. Samir Khalil Samir on the situation in the Middle East.

Discovering poverty

Peter Augustine Lawler on the moral message of "Girls."

A racket

The result of turning college education into a massive job-certification program.

Loving the poor from very far away

Victor Davis Hanson argues that our ruling elites are engaging in what Marx called "mystification."

Childless cities

Joel Kotkin argues that the movement in favour of denser cities implicitly assumes that families are not important.

Eudaimonic vs. hedonic

True happiness involves meaning.

The end of Protestantism

A classic piece by Stanley Hauerwas.

The most hypocritical elite in history

A brilliant, scathing essay by Patrick J. Deneeen.

What is "authentic"?

The ideology of "authenticity" is just a cover for the fact that our age views well-being as the primary goal of human existence.

Perfection is democratic

Following Vasily Grossman in Armenia.

The question of love

A piece by Eve Tushnet.

Humanitarian vanity

What is striking about the idea that the justice system serves essentially a theurapeutic function is the extreme narcissism of its proponents.

The end of democracy?

The truth is that democracy requires that the rulers and the ruled share in some common ideals, that bind them together (and, no, economic expansion and maximum sexual freedom do not count as "ideals")

Call a duck a duck

An op-ed on euthanasia in Quebec by Margaret Somerville.