Peter J. Leithart

Three-quarters of the way through his illuminating new book Regime Change, Patrick Deneen finds the key he’s been groping for over the past several years—the church. Then he drops it again.  Continue Reading »

Science doesn’t provide a comprehensive, indisputable account of reality. That doesn’t make it useless, but it does mean we’ll misuse science so long as we misconstrue what it is and isn’t. Continue Reading »

We must grasp the gravity of our moment. The West isn’t sick. It’s dead, and we should heed Jesus’s exhortation to “let the dead bury their dead.”  Continue Reading »

Whenever Christians have pursued the comprehensive pedagogy of the Shema, it has taken form in a civilization that expresses single-minded love for God and serves as a ubiquitous exhortation to persevere in that love. Continue Reading »

Does music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning? Continue Reading »

Jesus’s resurrection gives life to our souls and dispels the darkness of our minds. But it’s not merely psychological or spiritual. Now in the present, our bodies share in Jesus’s bodily resurrection.  Continue Reading »

The world can be saved from itself only by a Savior who ruthlessly exposes the greed and libido dominandi that lurk behind captivating screens of civility and piety. Continue Reading »

A meeting of pastor and president is a meeting of two kings, one of whom is ordained to represent the King of heaven. Continue Reading »

Alan Garner has for a long, long time been plotting complex stories and achieving uncanny effects with matter-of-fact but densely allusive prose. Continue Reading »

Your average textbook on Eucharistic theology won't have a substantial discussion of Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, or Schiller. There are historical and theological reasons why that’s regrettable. Continue Reading »