It’s Cool to Love America Again
The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the National Mall this month, was not, in fact, great. Snooty social media…
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America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Education of Cole Tomas Allen
Anti-Wokeness: An Obituary
During Barack Obama’s presidency, several political movements arose that were to define America long after he had…
The Scandal of Jewish Belief
The Gospel of Matthew ends with this promise of Jesus to his disciples: “Behold, I am with…
The Sudden Death of the African Church
Total civilizational collapse is unusual. In the West, continuity exists between the Roman past and our contemporary…
Ban the Books
Walk into a bookstore anywhere in the country. Chances are that, somewhere toward the front, you’ll see…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?
What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…
It’s Cool to Love America Again
The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the…
1776, Not 1789
America has just celebrated its 250th birthday amid a quiet but consequential confusion: a growing tendency to…
How Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement
Several weeks after the 2016 election, Marjorie Dannenfelser received a voicemail from President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Her…
The Pope and the Antichrist
I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons,…
The Founders and the Common Good
The dominant public philosophy among American elites is modern liberalism, often referred to merely as “liberalism.” Two…
Left to Our Own Devices
Hiding in most of our pockets is a shiny black mirror with a logo on the back…
Briefly Noted
Modest is hottest, or so we’ve been told. In her first book, Anna Kalinowska rejects this school…
The Enemy Within
The Information State is one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. In a virtuoso…
Judaism Outside History
Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a…
Centaur
The Etruscan centaur holds up his right hand,not palm outward as if to stop chariot trafficor solemnly…
A Celtic Skull in the Museum at La Tène
Two-thousand years and more untouched I burnedIn soil’s slow fire. On the beachAbove, ringed by thin, withered…
Asters
The asters bloom amid late-summer heat,Low-lying stars that will not linger longAnd bend their sprays beneath the…
Our American Babylon
Once upon a time—it was the 1976 bicentennial of the American founding, to be precise—I wrote a…
A Nation Under God
Our country has a long tradition of official encouragement of religion on a non-sectarian basis. That tradition…
America’s Two Foundings
Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence—together…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
Self-Evident Truths and American Independence
One of the common reactions of the British to the American Declaration of Independence was astonishment at…
The Bible Cause at 200
Two hundred years ago this Spring, on May 11, 1816, representatives from local Bible societies around the…
