Missouri Macbeths
by Peter J. LeithartLots of bad people get their deserts, but the world of Ozark is one where sinners cannot be laundered and aren’t judged. Continue Reading »
Bob Andrews: A Large and Patriotic Life
by George WeigelA great talent for friendship across the divides of race and class informed Bob Andrews’s fiction even as it enriched his life and the lives of those drawn into his ample orbit. Continue Reading »
Miss Marple Returns
by John WilsonA new, charming series of short stories starring Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple has just been released. Continue Reading »
How Abortionists Dispose of Their Victims
by Catherine Glenn FosterAre we going to treat the bodies of humans with the basic dignity they were denied in life, or are we going to treat them like trash? We must confront, rather than avoid, the grim realities of the abortion industry in its totality. Continue Reading »
Guns and the American Soul
by Peter J. LeithartTo gain moral insight into American violence, Christians need to disentangle and properly order our loves. Only then will we be able to assess accurately what is good and what is evil in American gun culture. Continue Reading »
Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion
by John MurdockGun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »
Storyteller Extraordinaire
by John WilsonConnelly’s novels make up one vast saga of crime and punishment, bureaucracy and domesticity, friendship and enmity. Continue Reading »
Surprised by Evil
by Peter LeithartMacbeth’s ambition is to murder time itself. He wishes he could perform one act that would bring the end of acting, one final deed. He wants to drop a pebble into a pool without causing ripples. He finds he can’t, and instead each murder just makes it more difficult for him to stop murdering. Continue Reading »
Seeking Justice in the Wake of Tragedy
by Matthew H. YoungA horrible tragedy occurred earlier this week, when a young white male walked into Emanuel A.M.E. church in historic Charleston, South Carolina, and killed nine congregation members. Unfortunately, many common responses to the massacre threaten to undermine efforts to seek real, substantive . . . . Continue Reading »
Germanwings and Evil
by Martyn Wendell JonesIn the days since audio was extracted from the black box recorder of crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 suggesting that copilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately downed the plane, investigators and journalists have rushed to find an explanation for his actions. Continue Reading »
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