Public Life

Refounding Social Science

Psychology and sociology were meant to bring about an epoch of progress. Where did they go wrong?
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10 Aug 2021

Christ's Signs, Our Faith

Andreas J. Köstenberger joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John's Gospel. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2021

Keeping the Main Things the Main Things

by Robert Benne

Christian sexual ethics, the sanctity of life, and evangelism are core commitments of Christian faith and life. They are main things. Let us keep them main things. Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2021

The Church is a Free Speech Movement

by Peter J. Leithart

Christians who walk in the Spirit, who pray for parrhesia, who stay with Jesus, can be confident the Spirit will teach them irrefutable words to speak at just the right moment. Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2021

Putting on the Mind of Christ

by Mark Bauerlein

Deal Hudson joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, 365 Days of Catholic Wisdom: A Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Continue Reading »

5 Aug 2021

Looking Back to Think Forward

by Francis X. Maier

What the past teaches us most forcefully is that reform of the institution depends on reform of the individual. Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2021

Moral Courage and the Many Cultures of Death

by George Weigel

Colonel Ryszard Kukliński took a courageous stand against communism’s culture of death, knowing that freedom is never cost-free. Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2021

A Cult of Elites

by Mark Bauerlein

Bruce Abramson joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The New Civil War: Exposing Elites, Fighting Utopian Leftism, and Restoring America. Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2021

I read R. R. Reno’s charitable words on Karl Barth with great interest (“Karl Barth,” May) and would like to offer my own remarks as a supplement. At the Protestant Theologicum in Tübingen (1974–5), I spent a year sharing an office with Reno’s mentor, Ronald Thiemann. Ron’s background . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

One-Man Revolution

by Jacquelyn Lee

In 1932, while covering a worker’s strike in Washington, D.C., Dorothy Day said a prayer. Since her conversion to Catholicism, she felt that she could no longer join such strikes. Joining a strike was an expression of solidarity—and fundamental philosophical differences prevented true . . . . Continue Reading »