Voters Want Regime Change
If you only look at the numbers, the midterm results were not remarkable. Voters often rebuke presidential administrations at the midway point. But we rightly sense that this election…
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The Left Is Right About the Bible
A Culture of Parricide
I learned a new word the other day: déploration. It’s the French, directly from the Latin, for “lament.”…
Algorithm, Interface, and AI
Many conversations about artificial intelligence end in a stalemate: A sentiment like “ChatGPT is awful because kids…
Serial Liar, Serial Comma
How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write…
Who Killed the Clancy Children?
After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death…
Icarus Descending
The Pro-Life Movement’s Midterm Reckoning
It’s impossible to sugarcoat it,” Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America wrote in a memo…
Voters Want Regime Change
If you only look at the numbers, the midterm results were not remarkable. Voters often rebuke presidential…
Harvard’s Quiet Catholic Revival
It is entirely reasonable that the rise in young converts to the Catholic Church has happened outside…
Francis Bacon’s Tender Mercies
The most desperate and most heartfelt prayers are those begging God for mercy. Francis Bacon (1561–1626), one…
The Myth of St. Francis
At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the…
Job and Her
It is said that Job lost everything, but she has lost more. All her possessions—the money, the…
A Muslim Answer to Muslim Immigration
Modern America worships at the altar of youth and eagerly tracks in polls and market research its…
Smashing the Images
As the postwar era draws to an end, some Christians continue to reach for analogies to the…
The Cold Beauty of Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926–2020) was a writer of astounding gifts who not only recorded history but made it.…
Forget Odysseus. Aeneas Is the True American Hero.
Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most Odyssean hero of American film? Matt…
The Chariot Burials
Wheeling through the clotted earth, / Bronze, bone, and leather clumped in clay…
William of St. Thierry
“Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil, / They rise above the turmoil of this world…
Lethe
He thought he saw her in the orchid house / and all the flowers seemed to disappear…
A Jew in Anti-Christian America
This essay originated as the 1995 Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public Life.…
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis
This lecture was delivered as the fourth annual Erasmus Lecture. In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist,…
Jews, Christians, and Civil Society
This article is based on the fifteenth annual Erasmus Lecture of the Institute on Religion and Public…
God as a Gentleman
Everybody knows the Decalogue and, in particular, the commandment “You shall not take the name of the…
