Uncovering the Christian Past: New and Notable Books
Several books on some aspect of the history of Christianity have recently come my way. “The Most Dangerous Man in England”: Newman and the Laity, by Paul Shrimpton, provides…
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How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
Smooth Sailing
I regularly fume as I am caught in the chain of red lights that mark my rides…
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…
Madness in Minneapolis
It’s tempting, given the pace of our news cycle these days, to resist the urge to crown…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
War Without Limits?
Does the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran fill the criteria of Christian just war theory? A number of…
Lou Holtz and Our Lady on the Dome
Lou Holtz hated to lose at football. Texas A&M’s 35–10 victory over his Notre Dame team in…
Antoni Gaudí’s Icon of the Universe
2026 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the great medievalist-modernist architect from Catalonia.…
Uncovering the Christian Past: New and Notable Books
Several books on some aspect of the history of Christianity have recently come my way. “The Most…
The Case for Christian Nationalism
Recent polling paints a disturbing picture: Fewer than half of Gen-Z Americans are extremely or very proud…
Lyric as Disclosure
Back in 2014, my wife and I bought a house on six acres of land several miles…
Love in the Time of Mass Migration
The unknown traveler shows up storm-tossed, naked, and hungry. He is bathed and clothed, the best wine…
Indispensable Plato
Over the past decade, somewhat surprisingly, many people have become born-again defenders of Western civilization…
The Serpent and the Dove
Late in the evening of Thursday, September 8, 1955, Communist Party officials in Shanghai launched a mass…
A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…
Long Days
To my brother John. What happened to long days,the ones whose ends we couldn’tfathom till they came,and…
Caravaggio’s “Conversion of St. Paul”
(in the Cerasi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo) Paul lies sprawled beneath his…
Latch Hook
The only rug we had was on the wall—linoleum was what my mother knew—a woodsy scene, green…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
No Friend in Jesus
“I cannot conceive an argument with John’s Jesus,” Jacob Neusner once wrote, “because eternal Israel in John…
God’s First Love: The Theology of Michael Wyschogrod
Paradox attends the influence of Michael Wyschogrod, perhaps the most original Jewish theologian of the past half…
Lincoln’s Almost Chosen People
In his wonderful book Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson recalls meeting an immigrant family from Thailand who…
King David
In a provocative and profound essay in this magazine (“A King in Israel,” May 2010), the late…
The Undying People
The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…
