Breaking the Mind
Philosopher James K. A. Smith suffered through a period of profound depression. He found solace and insight in the writings of some of the great Christian mystics. And what he learned…
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America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Education of Cole Tomas Allen
The Sudden Death of the African Church
Total civilizational collapse is unusual. In the West, continuity exists between the Roman past and our contemporary…
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…
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
Ukraine and the Limits of Dialogue
For months now, I have been receiving alarming, early-morning text messages from Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of…
A Rudderless Odyssey
There is much to like about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. The movie is visually stunning; the set pieces,…
Malta’s Answer to the Abortion Lobby
For almost a decade, abortion activists have had the small Mediterranean country of Malta in their crosshairs.…
All Labor Is Labor
The Elizabethan commonplace comparing creative production to pregnancy and birth is baked into the English language. We…
The Founders and the Common Good
The dominant public philosophy among American elites is modern liberalism, often referred to merely as “liberalism.” Two…
The Pope and the Antichrist
I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons,…
Left to Our Own Devices
Hiding in most of our pockets is a shiny black mirror with a logo on the back…
Breaking the Mind
Philosopher James K. A. Smith suffered through a period of profound depression. He found solace and insight…
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…
