Issue 23

Issue 23 delves into Western civilization and intellectual tradition with essays by Mark Dooley (“Salvation from Ourselves”), Christiaan W.J.M. Alting von Geusau (“What is Education?”), and Harrison Pitt (“Escaping the Tyranny of Relevance”).

Contributions include James V. Schall, S.J., “On the Intellectual and Spiritual Life”; Jaime Nogueira Pinto, “The Counter-Revolutionary Right”; and Clemens Cavallin, Lars Eklund, and Johan Sundeen, “Restoration of a Broken Civilization.”

Álvaro Peñas interviews Dimitriy Savvin, “Putin’s Neo-Soviet Regime”; A.M. Fantini speaks with Frank Judo, “Conservatism as Contemplation.”

Book reviews include James Orr on Mark Dooley’s Against the Tide; J.C. Scharl on Christopher Ricks’ Along Heroic Lines; Jorge González-Gallarza on Steve Hayward’s biography of M. Stanton Evans. Erik Z.D. Ellis writes about the joys of collecting Bompiani editions—”On a trip to Italy, I encountered a series of stout little volumes with ocean green spines published by Bompiani and called Il pensiero occidentale (Western Thought).”

We publish James Matthew Wilson‘s poem “The Silence of Grief” and Joseph Shaw reflects on Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, “The Unlikely Survival of Sacred Office.” Charles Coulombe looks at “Dollfuss and Renner: Hero and Traitor.”

A ‘controversial’ cartoon in the issue made waves in the UK and the magazine sold out on our website.