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A reflection on what people are willing to fight, kill, and die for.

It’s time for the Catholic Culture staff’s annual roundup of our favorite books (and other media) of the past year.

What does it mean to defend freedom, truth, virtue, and the sacred in the age of modern democratic man? And what does democracy itself even mean now?

A new book traces common philosophical threads in the writings of Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton.

Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton, by Daniel J. Mahoney (St. Augustine’s Press, 168 pp., $20) Wokeism, which has taken off in the United States but has its deepest intellectual roots in Europe, is only the latest variant of thought dating back to the 1960s that has subjected […]

A conversation between Alain Fikielkraut and Pierre Manent. Very French and very flabby, but here is an excerpt that I approve of (emphasis added): P.M. What is the nature of Islam’s challenge for us? And who is this “we” being...

A conversation

Once considered by many to be indispensable to the cause of human liberty, America today is attacked as the bulwark of atavistic politics that clings to a dark and unjust past, impeding the confident march of human progress. These attacks are directed at America’s national form, understood as a defined, bordered, and discrete community dedicated to the common good of a particular and exclusive citizen body.

Commentary There is no more fundamental task that lies before us than a self-conscious effort to recover the ...

His dreams of a French-German partnership are dying