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Min In the seventh episode of High Noon, Inez Stepman speaks with Spencer Klavan. Klavan is the associate editor of the  Claremont Review of Books and the Claremont Institute’s online publication,  The American Mind. He’s also the author of an academic publication, Music in Ancient Greece, as well as a translation of the Book of Isaiah. Klavan hosts a popular podcast, Young Heretics, where he explores, through the lens of the Western canon, “truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters.” Stepman and Klavan discuss why the Western classics have fallen out of favor in the academy,...

Patrick Deneen joins the podcast to discuss his recent review in American Affairs “A Tyranny without Tyrants?”

5 . 13 . 21 Peter Leithart’s recent contribution to the failure-of-liberalism genre opens with an arresting claim: “Liberalism is centrally an alternate, anti-catholic ecclesiology.” This assertion strikes me as correct, although too cryptic. We need to be more precise: Liberalism functions as an “ism” insofar as its proponents insist upon its magisterial authority, asserting that liberal principles—and only liberal principles—offer a full, perfect, and sufficient basis for the ordering of common life. Leithart directs us to “A Letter Concerning Toleration,” where we find Jo...

Education Next Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason by Jonathan Marks As reviewed by J. Grant Addison In Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke, Marks describes the aim of liberal education as creating a certain type of person: that is, a reasonable one. “Reason,” as opposed to syllogism or simple debate, is both a habit of mind and a standard to hold while pursuing truth. “Our way of talking captures the sense, still alive in us despite the resolute unse...

5 . 11 . 21 Conservative critics of liberalism frequently miss their target. Liberalism isn’t just a political system that prioritizes individual freedom and social equality. It isn’t constitutionalism, which took form long before liberalism emerged. Though it implies an anthropology and a metaphysics, liberalism is centrally an alternate, anti-catholic ecclesiology. This is explicit in Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration, where he defines the church as a voluntary society devoted to the pursuit of eternal life. Dedicated to private religious ends, the church “in no way concerns ...