Apocalypse Now?

by Peter J. Leithart

The main thing exposed by any apocalypse is the state of the heart.  Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2020

Things Fall Apart

by Peter J. Leithart

The Book of Revelation sheds light on the distorted Christian inspiration behind globalism.  Continue Reading »

29 Dec 2017

Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse

by K. E. Colombini

Modern civilization has largely lost touch with the natural world and its practical arts; perhaps this is why we create so many apocalypse stories.  Continue Reading »

25 Sep 2017

On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores

by Brandon D. Smith

Approaching Revelation as a prediction of imminent catastrophe is far from how John intended his audience to understand his vision.  Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2017

The Dishonest Capitulation of Michael Gerson

by Mark Bauerlein

Gerson calls Decius’s attitudes “prejudice,” the condition of “a certain kind of right-wing nationalist.” Isn't it fun for a conservative, for once, to be able to talk like this! Isn't it great that conservatives can play identity politics, too? Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2016

Cryogenic Monks

by Richard T. Whittington

Don DeLillo's novels suggest that the fundamental yearning that underlies all action, the creation and the destruction of civilizations, is the yearning to escape personal mortality. But the feats of modern science have tempted some to believe that science can defy human mortality altogether. Continue Reading »

8 Aug 2016

Stephen King’s American Apocalypse

by Ross Douthat

The result, across King’s body of work, is a vision of contemporary America as a spiritual realm that is out of joint and up for grabs, thick with competing forces and watched over by an Almighty whose goals are inscrutable, whose demands are peremptory, and whose methods are sometimes cruel. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2007

Liturgy

by William Heyen

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes spit up frogspawn & . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1990

Middle East Apocalypse Now?

by Peter J. Leithart

Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it has revived one flagging and undeniably American industry: dispensationalist pop-apocalyptic. Largely under the influence of former steamboat captain Hal Lindsey, a large sector of American . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1990

Ecotastrophe Again

by Herbert London

The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome scenario that predicted ecological catastrophe, the WorldWatch Institute has picked up the mantle of leadership in the discredited field of what I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1990