Is the Influencer the New Party Boss?
As Abdul El-Sayed celebrates his election as the first-ever Muslim U.S. senator, the GOP and president scramble to assign blame, and progressives prime themselves to take control of their…
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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
It’s Time for Pro-Lifers to Engage the AI Revolution
Jonathon Van Maren’s First Things article offering a post-midterm reckoning for the pro-life movement is a must-read. Anyone…
Nostos in the Ninth
When Roy Hobbs digs his spikes into the clay—bottom of the ninth, two outs, down by two,…
Is the Influencer the New Party Boss?
As Abdul El-Sayed celebrates his election as the first-ever Muslim U.S. senator, the GOP and president scramble…
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…
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
This essay was delivered as the 31st Erasmus Lecture. Everybody knows the Decalogue and, in particular, the…
