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Jan 5, 2025 | 
conservativereview.com | Allen C. Guelzo
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
freebeacon.com | Allen C. Guelzo
The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Allen C. Guelzo |Heather Hahn |Nanette Sawyer |Jack Jenkins
Karl Barth, who believed God’s word meets and saves us within our historical circumstances, famously opined that preachers should hold the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. American journalist Alan Barth (no relation to the Swiss theologian) held that news is only the first draft of history. With the advent of social media, news cycles, and the proliferation of tendentious news outlets, the views of both Barths have become increasingly problematic.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Allen C. Guelzo
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
theamericanscholar.org | Allen C. Guelzo
Surely one of the most peculiar letters ever written by an American composer came from the hand of Charles Ives in July 1913. For one thing, it was written on the letterhead of the Eagle Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the same Eagle Hotel that, 50 years before, had been the temporary headquarters of Major-General John Buford at the outset of the fighting in the greatest of all battles of the American Civil War.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Gary Saul Morson |William Logan |Michael Mandelbaum |Allen C. Guelzo
On “Willem de Kooning and Italy” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice. On the life & work of Joe Zucker. On Rex Whistler: The Artist and His Patrons by Nikki Frater. On “Paris 1874” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. On “Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | William Voegeli |Allen C. Guelzo |David Deavel |Christopher Flannery
For growing numbers of Americans, our country has become a rotten place to live. The wealthy can still believe in the American Dream of steady advancement, year to year and generation to generation. For everyone else, the hope that they and their children can achieve or preserve a comfortable, respectable, and secure standard of living has become a cruel mirage. We need not despair, however. Wise and humane governance sustained the American Dream through the middle of the 20th century.
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May 4, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Catesby Leigh |Dennis Hale |Allen C. Guelzo |John J. DiIulio
Our nation faces a daunting cultural challenge: to enhance the architectural value of the world we build. In recent decades the American city, where our civilization symbolizes itself in the highest degree, has been steadily degraded by cultural and educational institutions, government agencies, and real estate developers, all determined to erect “iconic” fashion statements. They do so by hiring self-regarding, theory-addled architects, who see their brief as reifying an ever-mutating Zeitgeist.
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May 2, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jesse Merriam |Allen C. Guelzo |Dennis Hale |Christopher Flannery
The American Right is undergoing an important transition, from blaming contemporary ills on political actors and programs to indicting the entire system. This transition has ushered in a new era of “regime discourse,” featuring a host of allegations against our ruling elites and even proposals to initiate a “regime change” to overhaul the current order. Two issues are often obscured in this regime talk. Which institutional and cultural arrangements constitute our governing system?
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen |Allen C. Guelzo |Rebecca McLaughlin |Joe Carter
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin Hansen: Did you know that the number of people living in democratic states has fallen by more than half since 2003? I have to admit, I did not.
