What We’ve Been Reading—September 2021

by Editors

Our editors reflect on the future of American foreign policy, the Counter-Reformation, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and the work of Sergij Bulgakov. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2021

Make America Great Again, Again, 2024

by Francis X. Maier

Our problem as a country boils down to the fact that we hate each other. Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2021

If Only Francis Were Luther!

by Carl R. Trueman

Roman Catholics should worry less about Pope Francis's resemblance to Luther and more about his resemblance to Erasmus.  Continue Reading »

21 May 2018

Bondage and Freedom

by R. R. Reno

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation sent me back to Luther and his debate with Erasmus. The two were among the most widely read authors in sixteenth-century Europe. In the early 1520s, they exchanged dueling treatises on free will. They raised recondite theological questions of biblical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Erasmus Before the Storm

by Timothy George

Five hundred years ago this year, in February and March of 1516, a Swiss-German printer in Basel named Johann Froben published a volume of some 1,000 pages titled Novum Instrumentum Omne, “the whole New Testament.” This was the first officially published edition of the Greek New Testament, and . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2016