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Shoah is the Hebrew word for catastrophic ­ruin and unmitigated disaster. It appears in Psalm 35 as an imprecation against enemies: “Let ruin come upon them unawares!” It’s also...

In this episode, Hans Boersma joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Modernity and God-Talk,” from the November 2025 issue of the...

In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot notes, “The end is where we start from.” Our sense of when and how things reach their final consummation influences our views of...

In this episode, Louise Perry joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent essay, “Indigenous London,” from the November 2025 issue of the magazine. The...

The West is being roiled by populism. Voters are increasingly bitter about the effects of globalization, which has deindustrialized many regions. They’re especially angry about mass migration, a problem...

Will AI evolve and supersede human intelligence, ushering in the tyranny of machines? Is the economy careering toward an unprecedented silicon replacement of human labor, leading to mass unemployment...

In this episode, Peter Thiel joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recently co-authored essay, “Voyages to the End of the World,” from the November...

In this episode, Virginia Aabram and Elizabeth Bachmann join Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about Virginia’s recent essay, “The Road to Chartres,” from the November 2025...

The heroic dimension of faith and discipleship was prominent in the early church. In his Life of Anthony, Athanasius drew upon many classical images of heroism. Indomitable as Achilles…

In this episode, Leah Libresco joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent essay, The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto. The conversation is embedded...

According to the Wall Street Journal, construction spending on churches is up. For two decades, church attendance was falling and construction projects were declining. No more: “Religious construction bottomed out in late 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic separated people and accelerated the drop in in-person church attendance.” Since that time, spending on construction has increased each year, and it rose nearly 17 percent from June 2024 through June 2025. 

Some years ago, I was visiting an acquaintance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had a few friends over for lunch. One was a graduate student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of...

Pastors, pundits, and politicians gathered in Phoenix last Sunday to remember Charlie Kirk. Seventy thousand people filled every seat of State Farm Stadium. Thousands more overflowed into the streets...

I first read St. John Henry Newman in 1985, when I was a graduate student at Yale. One of my teachers, Hans Frei, assigned Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua...

In the second episode of While We’re At It, Cameron Sexton joins in to talk about his work as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Speaker...