The American Conservative

Technocracy, tyranny, and the future of our freedom

A stunning Off Broadway play about Catholic conservatives captures the restless spirits of the age of culture war

We are in the beginning of the post-Christian Wars of Religion

How to make sense of the Hungarian leader

An extraordinary afternoon session with the controversial Hungarian prime minister

Faith, culture, and confiture in Nitra and Bratislava

Mary Eberstadt’s theory of how we lose the self in liquid modernity

Solzhenitsyn’s simple formula for regaining one’s inner freedom

An interview with Michel Houellebecq scholar Louis Betty

Sounding a sad note of decline in rural America

What is Yale for? What is the raison d’etre of our leadership class?

How the identity-politics left and the market-worshipping right conspire to create a ‘spiritual technology’

‘Small data points monitored continuously can be very predictive of behaviors’

What unites these killers? They’re looking for meaning once provided by religion

The world is not ordered as we think it is. It’s not even disordered as we think it is

Maybe the Benedict Option is a bad idea. So what else you got?

A letter from a man in despair