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Scott Liebertz is right that one essential ethical justification for a refusal to vote for one of the two major party candidates (“Don’t get mad, get Evan!”) is that...

Last week, David French wrote that “religious conservatives” who vote Trump will make themselves into “the cheapest date in American politics.” As if to prove French’s point, my friend...

Carl is right to note that the Benedict Option does not entail withdrawal from politics. It entails something far worse—a continuation of the culture war’s politics of resentment. “The...

For at least a generation if not more, no book has had a bigger impact on the American evangelical world’s understanding of our cultural situation than James Davison Hunter’s...

Dan McLaughlin offers a brilliant, Christmas-themed argument against political despair; chock full of facts and logic, and also of moments like this: Progress, I know, is frustratingly slow, and...

I had not previously been aware of the “AEI/Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity,” which brings together scholars from the best think tank on each side of the...

Carl Trueman is right when he posts this morning that the inevitable collapse of the sexual revolution need not be followed by “a conservative victory.” As he says, “the...

My friend Henry Olsen knows election data just about as well as anyone in the public eye. Since he now has a brand new blog and a forthcoming book to promote,...

Patheos has just published a symposium on the future of evangelicalism in the next five years. I’m delighted by how few of the voices are embracing either the cultural...

It’s still behind a paywall for the time being, but if you have a National Review account, check out Henry Olsen’s very important new article on the brewing conflict...

When I first started referring to the execrable founder of Wallbuilders as The David Barton Traveling Medicine Show, I had no idea how far his act traveled. He had to...

Same-sex marriage is raising some pretty urgent questions about religious liberty and pluralism. Is the religious liberty of people who practice same-sex marriage infringed upon if government does not...

Legal disputes over the definition of marriage—such as the recent U.S. v. Windsor case, which struck down the Defense of Marriage Act—raise urgent questions about religious liberty rights in a...

A major story in Politico on Eric Braverman’s eyebrow-raisingly abrupt departure from the Clinton Foundation has me reassessing Chelsea Clinton and, to some extent, my horror at the emerging hereditary...

One of the great questions of our time is how to understand the relationship between the unprecedented developments in religion and the unprecedented developments in social order that have...