Shared Loves and Strong Loyalties
by R. R. RenoIn this historical moment, full of the confusion and danger that attend the collapse of a governing consensus, we need something more than liberalism. Continue Reading »
A Landmark Civil Rights Case
by Mark BauerleinMax Eden joins the podcast to discuss critical race theory and his article “A Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit.” 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 »
The Necessity of Nationalism
by Nathan PinkoskiThose involved in the debates over American nationalism will find Samuel Goldman’s skeptical intervention, After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division, a refreshing read. Free of histrionics, Goldman’s sober and succinct exercise in historically informed political theory . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Lewis
by Gilbert MeilaenderThe subtitle of this book characterizes it as a “guide” to The Abolition of Man. Potential readers might, therefore, ask themselves: What does Michael Ward mean in calling his book a “guide”? And why should a guide be needed for a book that (with rather large print) runs to only a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Old Evangelization
by Bronwen McSheaAs a historian who studies missionaries, I am sometimes asked by my fellow Catholics: How did the Church think about evangelization in the past compared to the present? Typically it is clear that they regard one age as wiser than the other. The more progressively inclined assume that . . . . Continue Reading »
Dramas of Decline and Fall
by Gregory WolfeIn 2013, Dana Gioia argued in these pages that “although Roman Catholicism constitutes the largest religious and cultural group in the United States, Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts.” I was reminded of that contention when it dawned on me that . . . . Continue Reading »
They Did It for the Kids
by Joseph E. DavisOperation Varsity Blues,” the 2019 college admissions scandal, returned to the news earlier this year when a Netflix documentary provided a fresh opportunity to decry abuses of privilege and the selfishness of parents seeking to boast of their children’s achievements. Comforting accounts, to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Safetyism
by R. R. RenoI don’t know anyone who believes in transhumanism, the techno-fantasy that we can merge our consciousness with computers and thus attain an earthly, silicon immortality. But many of us are functional transhumanists. We act as though, with proper and rigorous application of science and technology, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Failure of Evangelical Elites
by Carl R. TruemanThere are times in history when Christianity feels its place in society coming under threat. As it finds itself pushed to the margins, two temptations emerge. The first is an angry sense of entitlement, an impulse to denounce the entire world and withdraw into cultural isolation. In the early . . . . Continue Reading »
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