Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” in Modern New York Interview - “The change with After Virtue, however, is that in an important sense [MacIntyre] turns against modernity as a whole. He argues that the move to modernity involves the destruction of morality—that in modernity we no longer know what we’re talking about when we deploy moral language.” 8/24/2024
Former Congressman Jody Hice: “Sacred Trust” Interview - “Obviously elections are political in terms of who wins and loses, but the process should not be political.” 5/17/2024
Slavoj Žižek: “Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist” Interview - “In all other religions, you have people who become atheists. Only in Christianity, God himself goes through this experience.” 4/25/2024
Lord Conrad Black: Insights from the Ancient World Interview - “There is such a thing as progress. I am no Pollyanna, and human nature doesn’t change much, but there’s undoubtedly progress.” 4/14/2024
Grant Havers: The Conservative Tradition in Canada Interview - “Yes, as you mentioned, one of the most interesting findings of Lament for a Nation, which came out in 1965—it’s Grant’s most famous book—is that in Grant’s view, there’s really no such thing as American conservatism.” 2/23/2024
“Godmother of Consumer-Driven Healthcare”: An Interview with Regina Herzlinger Interview - “For example, with a container of yogurt, I know its price, calories, calcium content, and vitamin content. But if I need a hip replacement, I have no data to judge the quality of the physician, hospital, or other sites where the surgery might be performed.” 2/6/2024
Mihai Nadin: Disrupter of Science Interview - “[My book seeks to] disrupt science in the sense that it gets us away from the myth that doing more physics and chemistry will be the answer to understanding the living and, in particular, the human being.” 2/3/2024
Daniel A. Cox: Taking the Pulse of Gen Z Interview - “One of the really significant differences in terms of how young people are being raised today and their formative and teens years and previous generations is how slowly they’re reaching major milestones, such as getting married [and] owning a home, the sort of signs of adulthood…” 2/1/2024
Slavoj Žižek: “Freedom: A Disease Without Cure” Interview - “So you see why people are not satisfied: I don’t propose simple solutions. In my old age, I’m returning from Marx to Hegel.” 1/18/2024
Richard Kemp: Israel’s Existential Campaign to Destroy Hamas The Center - “Hamas wants to maximize the death of its civilian population. The purpose is to get the international community, the United Nations, the United States, other governments around the world, to condemn Israel, to vilify Israel, to delegitimize Israel, and undermine the Jewish state in that way.” 12/19/2023
Phyllis Chesler: Modern Feminism’s Failure to Condemn Hamas The Center - “The feminists have deserted Jewish women. And it wasn’t just Jewish women. There were Arab Muslim women, and there were Thai Buddhist women. No doubt many Christian women or some Christian women who were also raped, murdered, and kidnapped.” 12/13/2023
Wessie du Toit: When a Society Decenters Leisure The Center - “Meaningful work is as important to life as leisure, I think. I just think that we’ve lost the balance.” 11/25/2023
Patrick Deneen: “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future” The Right - “The so-called conservative movement of the 1980s was anything but conservative.” 11/3/2023
Dr. Cheryl Green: What’s Ailing Young Women The Center - “The most common precursor of gender dysphoria, though, seems to be intense social media use. The gender dysphoria more often seems to stem from that rather than from the home.” 10/26/2023
Samuel G. Freedman: What a Young Hubert Humphrey Can Teach Us The Left - “Humphrey’s insurgency at the convention basically lashed Truman to the mast of [Humphrey’s] own civil rights agenda. And desegregating the armed forces was arguably the single most important civil rights cause of that moment in time.” 9/16/2023
Matt Johnson: “How Hitchens Can Save the Left” The Left - “There really hasn’t been anybody like him since he passed…This is why there are these long compilations of ‘Hitchslaps’ on YouTube. It’s why most of the tributes to him focus on his rhetorical prowess—and just his brilliance on the debate stage.” 9/14/2023