Events Roundup—1.30.23
by EditorsEvents happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
Reality Is Messy
by John WilsonLet us resolve, in this new year, to push back against the fashionable narrative that our society is more divided than ever. Continue Reading »
Blessing Biden
by John MurdockWith the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness. Christians must resist the urge to demonize and curse. Continue Reading »
Notes From a Nonconformist
by Peter HitchensI achieved herd immunity many years ago. Continue Reading »
The Miracle of “We”
by R. R. RenoHuman beings are by nature social animals. But the particularity of the “we” is always a gift. Continue Reading »
The Three Necessary Societies
by Russell HittingerRerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Tocqueville in the Gutter
by Helen AndrewsThe Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselvesby james poulosst martin’s, 304 pages, $26.99Alexis de Tocqueville was sensitive about his height, a mere 5 feet 4 inches, but it would have made him feel a giant to see some of the midgets who have followed after him. No . . . . Continue Reading »
Mercersburg Theology, Eucharistic Union, and Civil Society
by James R. RogersMercersburg theology has a small but devoted following among evangelically-oriented Calvinists. It was a nineteenth-century movement centered in the German Reformed seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Leading scholars John Williamson Nevins and Philip Schaff criticized the individualism and . . . . Continue Reading »
Civil Society, Church, and State
by David T. Koyzis Civil society does not represent an effort to “fix” something, whether it be the overweening state or the corrosive market. To think that it does is to miss the point.
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Population Policy: Ideology as Science
by Nicholas EberstadtIn recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a “population revolution” which, though it has attracted comparatively little attention, is nevertheless both unprecedented and pregnant with consequences for the peoples of the countries affected. This “revolution” has been . . . . Continue Reading »
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