City of God

Religion in the Public Square

Chad Pecknold joins the podcast to discuss his recent Postliberal Order articles, “The Religious Nature of the City” and “Imago Dei as a Political Concept.” Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2022

Beyond Integralism and Progressivism

by Michael Hanby

As society crumbles, can the Church restore a new kind of universal communion? Continue Reading »

13 Jul 2021

Joe Biden Misreads Augustine

by C. C. Pecknold

Biden gives us a very limp Augustine who delivers only vague liberal pieties of “peace, peace.” Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2021

In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers that he is not arguing either with those who imagine there is no God or with those who suppose that whatever God there may be is improvident and does not care about this world or the people in it. It is the nature of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Letters

by Various

Sohrab Ahmari correctly identifies many of the pathologies haunting liberal order in the West (“The New American Right,” October), which some on the right have been reluctant to acknowledge. Indeed, more conservatives should be challenging the fragile premises of the . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2019

Learning to Love
Our Earthly Home

by Trenton Mattingly

Congratulations to Trenton Mattingly for winning second place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is his response to prompt #3. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2018

Charles Portis’s Norwood: Audiobook Road-Trip Bliss

by Carl Scott

As Thanksgiving approaches, many of you will be Homeward Bound and back again, on turnpikes or through airports, and you are starting to ask that key question: what recorded books ought I to obtain for the journey? Well, for the certifiably insane geniuses and Christian masochists, who can navigate . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2011

Peter Wehner Discusses the City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era

by Gayle Trotter

“If we were pacifists, we would have been in the wrong jobs, because I don’t think it’s advisable to have pacifists in the White House, particularly for situations like 9/11. In government, you take an oath to protect your fellow citizens and you have to take that . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2011