This article is an interesting reflection on the restructuring of European politics, as seen through the institutional transformation of European political parties. If I understand her argument...

Certainly the most influential book about the study of Islam in Europe and North America over the past half-century must be Edward Said's Orientalism. A book that has actually shaped intellectual...

"The past is never dead.  It's not even past."  William Faulkner isn't often recognized as a geopolitical strategist, but he enunciated one of the most fundamental axioms of that discipline in his...

Today is the Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo for the Latin churches, among whom I include all the post-Latin churches (like every church but the Roman Catholic Church, and that one is only...

Recently I came across this piece on “grand strategy” in international affairs, and the author makes the point, which I’ve heard a lot of, in a lot of places, over the past two years, that things...

Interesting article about one of the last of the mid-century public intellectuals, Nathan Glazer.  Thinkers like Glazer combined an awareness of what direct attention to social data can tell us, but...

This is a quite exemplary interview with Stanley Hauerwas.  (It's also funny and telling that Toor did the interview in part because Hauerwas asked her to do so, as she lets drop.)  Hauerwas has...

"It is impossible to understand the crisis of truth today without exploring the dilemma that was essentially baked into democratic politics from the beginning. In the absence of any one source of...

Because your life on a Sunday needs more staring at screens.

Nice book review of a novelized telling of the life of Erik Satie.

An interesting interview by Jesmyn Ward with Ta-Nehisi Coates...

Why is it so hard to write well about religion in fiction these days?  I confess I don't see a lot of good examples out there.  Everyone talks about Marilynne Robinson, and I really enjoy her but...