The Nightstand

Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in peace.

Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?

Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough characters are…

In a fragmented age increasingly seduced by the cult of the self, "Wuthering Heights" challenges us to reclaim the difficult virtues that make real community possible.

Kids are good in a theological sense, always. Sometimes, however, their behavior is not what adults would call good.

Chuck dreams of overcoming his allergy so he can reenter normal society. We reject the status quo because we want something better for our kids.

Skidelsky’s expertise is on full display as he tells the story of the impact of machines on the human condition.

Despite the surplus of enchantment discourse these days, the excellent parts of the book are indeed excellent.

We live under the impression that we can do for the human community and the individual human soul what physicists have done with the atom.

We are pilgrims in this world. We must be content to wonder as we wander. Douthat is asking his readers to cast their nets into the deep.

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it

Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling him that he’s got all the right impulses and is coming to the wrong conclusions.