Solzhenitsyn reminds us of the truths we would rather ignore.
Spencer A. Klavan
PlayStation’s most profitable franchise shows how video games and those who play them can mature.
Great art shows what can’t be theorized.
The genteel politics of yesteryear fails to meet the acute challenges of our moment.
The trouble with many defenses of the West or the classics is that they don't succeed in persuading people to return to the texts.
All methods of pursuing truth are vulnerable to the corruption of power.
Horror movies compel us to accept what we do not want to believe in.
Giorgio Vasari’s Florence has something urgent to say to 21st-century America.
Augusto Del Noce revealed the horrors of the 20th century's experiments with Marxism.
Conspiracy theories take root easily when people know that media gatekeepers and public health officials are untrustworthy.
The creator of Final Fantasy makes his final statement.
Plato reminds us that we will be miserable until we orient our regime toward our yearning to live good, just, and ordered lives.
Paul Cartledge's Thebes offers a welcome respite: a lost people's history presented without ideological commentary.
California’s despots, not its people, are currently threatening to define the country’s future.
Our sense of ourselves as human beings changes. A premise of Strategic Humanism is that since Bacon and Descartes it has changed for the worse.
Andrea Grosso Ciponte’s Freiheit! reveals the limits of Hitler comparisons.
Politics shouldn't determine what counts as art, but the energy released and channeled by art has a profound effect on politics, for good or ill.
Video games are an art form, and cultural critics on the right ought to take note of this powerful medium.
Reading Antigone in the age of coronavirus.
Spencer A. Klavan is features editor of The American Mind, associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and host of the Young Heretics podcast. His book, How to Save the West, is available on Amazon.