Recent essays by Sohrab Ahmari of the New York Post and David French of the National Review Institute provide dueling visions for how cultural conservatives should respond to the post-liberal left. Ahmari contends that social conservatives should assertively use their power to oppose the secular left. French holds onto the classical liberal approach to resisting leftist policy […]

Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. On the release date of his latest book, join New York Times columnist and IHE Media Fellow Ross Douthat for a discussion of our decadence — of what happens when […]

New York Times columnist and IHE Media Fellow Ross Douthat reprises a conversation he began in his latest book, The Decadent Society, about what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing, how long our era of stagnation and repetition might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end. Almost a year after […]