Confident Pluralism: A Response
by John InazuI am grateful for Professor Carl Trueman’s engagement with Confident Pluralism, even though, as his review makes clear, his pessimism runs deeper than mine. Continue Reading »
I am grateful for Professor Carl Trueman’s engagement with Confident Pluralism, even though, as his review makes clear, his pessimism runs deeper than mine. Continue Reading »
A new romantic comedy brutally satirizes our dictatorship of eros.
Take the train to Brussels, walk across the Warendepark, and into the Berlaymont building. This is the home of the European Commission. Depending on which entomologist you consult, it is either the cocoon from which a new Europe will emerge or the center of a vast spider-web of regulation that is choking the continent.
John Inazu offers a winsome vision of the future. I hope he is right but fear he is wrong. Continue Reading »
How God Messed Up My Happy Atheist Life
Nicole Cliffe, Christianity Today
Philosophy and Art Criticism
Kate Havard, Claremont Review of Books
Vatican Liturgy Chief Urges Priests to Celebrate Mass Facing East
Staff, Catholic Herald
An Elite Faith
Bill McMorris, Washington Free Breacon
The Enduring Legacy of The Twilight Zone
Brian Murray, New Atlantis
Why I Didn’t Attend My Notre Dame Graduation
Alexandra DeSanctis, Ethika Politika
The Case for Banning Pornography
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
Movies on Marriage: The Lobster vs. Love and Friendship
Tim Markatos, Acculturated
The Convict-Bourgeois
Eve Tushnet, University Bookman
Breaking down is easier than building up. Continue Reading »
It's time for our political intelligensia to wake up. So argues Walter Russell Mead in a thoughtful piece in The American Interest, “The Meaning of Mr. Trump.” Forget about handicapping the race between Trump and Clinton. Forget about itemizing Trump's liabilities and failings. What's important . . . . Continue Reading »
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The politicizing of the language of love is confusing and lethal for freedom. Continue Reading »
Subverted recounts the untold history of how the feminist and pro-abortion movements became allied. Part exposé, part conversion memoir, Browder’s book defies easy categorization, but by the end, I understood her approach. Browder’s honest account of her personal life—including her choice to have an abortion, despite being in a loving marriage—highlights the contradictions between reality and the flashy fantasy of the sexually liberated woman. . . . Continue Reading »