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Don't miss Nathan Pinkoski on the late Alasdair MacIntyre's intellectual journey from Marx to Aristotle, his critique of liberalism, and why he was an uneasy fit with both left-wing communitarians and right-wing postliberals: compactmag.com/article/postli…

"Dworkin’s brand of feminism—detested from the beginning by fellow feminists and by antifeminists alike—is remarkably consistent. She stood her ground, criticizing pornography and prostitution at a time when sex-positive feminism was emerging. She accurately predicted that

I got warnings against both DIGNITY and FEMINIST as potentially scaring the reader. Are you up to it?

I’m delighted to announce that this September I will take up the post of Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Keble College. I couldn’t be more excited to be joining this incredible community of scholars.

Anyway, it used to be pretty normal for Americans to instruct or correct other people’s kids, even ones they didn’t personally know. There are a lot of reasons that changed, and legitimate reasons to think that bringing the collective approach back is a little far fetched.

Agree with Ezra Klein on this profoundly (except the part about needing to grapple deeply with John Rawls)

Today I attended a lovely sung Mass for the Feast of the Ascension *in Amsterdam where it is a public holiday.* Dear American Catholics, let that sink in.

This week: Victoria Smith asks why progressives are so afraid of the female body—and explains what women’s bodies remind us about all human bodies: fairerdisputations.org/fear-female-bo…

Great read from Victoria Smith ⁦Fairer Disputations⁩ today. “Our “natures” may not be defined by our bodies, but all of our obligations to one another are shaped by our embodied selves, which always exist in relationship with one another.” fairerdisputations.org/fear-female-bo…

“One of the problems feminists face today, when challenging the ‘progressive’ attack on recognising femaleness at all, is that we need to understand why it has been so easy to make so many people—including many intelligent, well-meaning, forward-thinking people—make such an

Wonderful essay on MacIntyre's teaching by Rachel Lu. Law & Liberty First Things Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Ed lawliberty.org/macintyre-the-…

I wrote about how acknowledging femaleness doesn't 'reduce' a woman to a particular social status or role - but it does remind 'progressives' of the problem with their own dependency denialism fairerdisputations.org/fear-female-bo…

I'm happy to share that I've been invited to become a The Pillar columnist. I'll share my columns when they post. As a historian who loves engaging wider audiences, this'll be fun! But it's also a new challenge, to come up with fresh ideas & write in short form regularly!

This week: Spencer A. Klavan on the apparent revival of spirituality in American culture—and confronting today's distinctively modern form of paganism fairerdisputations.org/rebirth-dearth/

Always an honor to publish the insightful Spencer A. Klavan Fairer Disputations

I love writing for Fairer Disputations but this essay was particularly fun to work on with them. The sea of faith might be returning to earth's shore--but will it make us Christians, or neo-pagans? Much depends on how we respond. fairerdisputations.org/rebirth-dearth/

So proud of my 2025 college and high school graduates - what a privilege it is to be the mom of this fun and lively clan.

realclearbooks.com Monday reads: novalis for Wisdom of Crowds, Sanjana Friedman for City Journal, valen for Dispatch, Ross Barkan for his S*bstack, Meghan Daum for The Free Press, Spencer A. Klavan for Fairer Disputations, julia kornberg for The Paris Review, and many others.