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Anchored Freedom

Kurt Hofer

What is freedom, and what is freedom for? On March 25, I flew to Phoenix to find out. I was attending a First Things Intellectual Retreat, a weekend of lectures...

The Taste for Prayer

Kurt Hofer

I don’t think I ever really prayed,” a college friend of mine once told me. “I never believed it. I just bowed my head and pretended.” Luc was French...

Unbelief, the Opiate of the Masses

Kurt Hofer

Religion is the opiate of the masses.” In a single, swift turn of phrase, Marx had created a credo for the secular left. Opium, of course, is the drug...