PAUL JOHNSON, A CRITICAL CATHOLIC

THE TROUBLES

Paul Johnson's turn to history from journalism ought to earn him a lasting place in our memory as a great defender of ordered liberty.
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CITY JOURNAL OBITUARY

THE NEW CRITERION, REVIEW OF WORK

UK GUARDIAN

PROFILE, UK GUARDIAN

UK THE SPECTATOR

PAUL JOHNSON ARCHIVES.ORG

Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent represent a humane conservatism that demonstrates to us the importance of Western civilization.
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If we Americans can claim to possess a tragic consciousness, it owes more to Shakespeare than to Aristotle.
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The Price of Freedom
Kori Schake | Engelsberg Ideas
The international order that the US and its allies constructed from the ashes of World War II is under strain. The two main challenges to the order are America’s continued ability to uphold it and China’s rise. However, the order is much more durable than the frenzy of concern suggests.
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Who Put the West in Western Civilization?

Did Fulton Sheen Prophesy About These Times?

Perhaps no novel explores the personhood of woman better than Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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Marco Magnani paints a future of exciting possibilities and daunting challenges.
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Joseph Butler & the Unity of Faith and Nature

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

A Cardinal Misunderstanding of the Hierarchy of Truths

Benedict XVI describes ‘Protestantization’ of the Eucharist in posthumous publication

Dogfight Football: Germany and the Art of Strategy

The American founders learned from Montesquieu to eschew universalist ideology but defend freedom in their particular time and place.
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Christianity's dualistic claim is uniquely suited to provide the limits sought by liberalism and constitutionalism.
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Contrary to the belief they were deists and atheists, most of the American Founders believed in God’s providence and the natural law tradition.
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For Better Defense Spending, Split the Pentagon’s Budget in Two
Mackenzie Eaglen | Hill

Eight Thoughts on Israel’s Political Crisis
The rise of Middle Eastern culture in Israel is to be celebrated. The rise of Middle Eastern politics will make our fate identical to that of our neighbors

Profound and Pious
Decoding what made Abraham Joshua Heschel such a complicated and unique man—in the Jewish world, American culture, and our family—50 years after his death

From the AEI Archive: Historian Paul Johnson at AEI
Karlyn Bowman and Joseph Kosten | AEIdeas
Visitors to our country are often better able to understand our society than we are: Think of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Paul Johnson, the great British historian who died last week, did just that in his A History of the American People (Harper Perennial, 1997).