De Gaulle Passed Away on This Date in 1970

From First Things in 2019: Peter Hitchens reviews Julian Jackson's biography of Charles de Gaulle. 

Sex Differences

Daniel Cox talks with Chris Williamson on why men and women are giving up on one another.

"All Hell Is About to Break Loose"

 

Let's Revive the Human Factor

 

A.I. gives us an important opportunity. Let us count the ways.

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Find Something Beautiful Today

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"The Vanishing White Male Writer"

This Compact essay written by Jacob Savage in 2025 continues to get attention.

Long before I wrote Pilate's Magician, I encountered a "white male" problem with another manuscript.

Visit the websites for major agents and publishers. Check out the biographies of the agents and screeners.

You'll begin to see a pattern.

Crank It Up

 

The Progressive Goal?

 So here, finally, is my thesis: I believe that what progressives want most of all is to fail. They are most comfortable being against things. They are most comfortable campaigning for purposes that will never come to fruition. They are so dependent upon the perpetuation of social ills such as racism that in a pinch they will invent "microaggressions" undetectable to the naked eye; starved of racism, they will make racism up. For progressives, a proper utopia, with nothing and no one left to denounce, would be hell.

- Lionel Shriver, "What do progressives really want?" in The New Criterion, November 2026.

Seeing Evil

 

"I Gave Every Warning I Could."