Bipartisan agreement exists in affirming that our republican political system has decayed over the last two generations. But why has this decay happened and what can we do to stop it? Can we save our institutions or is saving them an impossible project? Join IHE Media Fellow Ross Douthat (The New York Times) for a […]

This first session focuses on the role of the media in investigating, reporting, and framing our understanding of the crisis. Participants: Elizabeth Bruenig – The Washington Post Ross Douthat –The New York Times J.D. Flynn – Catholic News Agency Chris White – Crux/The Tablet      

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 […]