It is one thing for someone unaware of the biblical narrative to adopt the rainbow. It is quite another thing for Christians, especially priests and ministers, to use the rainbow as a means of acknowledging the LGBTQ movement. Continue Reading »
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 »
There is too little constructive argument and too much carefully-policed rhetoric in Christian circles. Continue Reading »
Until America reaches a new social equilibrium, our market is likely to be as contentious as everything else. Continue Reading »
We need a society that is at least liberal, but not merely liberal. Continue Reading »
Liberalism isn’t just a political system that prioritizes individual freedom and social equality; liberalism is centrally an anti-catholic ecclesiology. Continue Reading »
The great liberal thinkers who devised our constitutional order were responding to a seventeenth-century problem, most sharply diagnosed by Thomas Hobbes. The English, Hobbes said, were “seeing double”—divided, both personally and politically, by conflicting allegiances to Christ and King. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie of mostly Catholic writers,” or report on the “network of Catholic intellectuals” making “the case against liberalism.” “Mostly these new traditionalists are . . . . Continue Reading »
Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc. Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and . . . . Continue Reading »
We wish to offer some advice to college students in these times of strife and polarization. Continue Reading »
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