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War seldom ends according to a satisfying script. Unconditional surrender—the banner headline of 1945—is a historical rarity, the exception, not the rule. More often hostilities conclude in the gray...

The winds of Christian renewal are gathering strength. The Bible Society in Great Britain recently conducted a longitudinal study of Christian practice in England and Wales. The results are...

Francis Fukuyama lacks self-knowledge. On June 4, he republished excerpts from Leo Strauss’s 1941 lecture on “German Nihilism.” In the introductory paragraphs, Fukuyama characterizes aspects of Strauss’s warnings to...

As I write, the Chair of St. Peter sits empty. It’s difficult to assess the significance of Francis’s pontificate. He championed a “pastoral” approach, which seemed to mean flexibility, invention...

I ‘ve often been told that Jews don’t “do theology.” A quick glance at The Guide for the Perplexed by the great medieval Jewish thinker Maimonides puts paid to...

I’ve come to see that early Christian theology is more rabbinic than Platonic. Better: It involves a rabbinic use of Platonism. Early in the third century, Origen, one of the greatest Christian commentators on the Bible...

In this episode, Darel E. Paul joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Feminism Against Fertility” from the May 2025 issue of the magazine....

After the Cold War, the United States could imagine that its military was all-­powerful. America seemed capable of taking decisive action anywhere in the world. This awesome war-making potential...

Written by Karl Popper after he fled Austria in the late 1930s, The Open Society and Its Enemies was published as World War II ended. The book attained canonical status as...

A remarkable man has passed from the scene. The Society of Jesus got its start nearly five hundred years ago and soon grew to become the most influential (and...

In this episode, Ericka Andersen joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent essay, “Who Owns the Embryos?” from the April 2025 issue of the magazine....

H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following ­observations in a short column, “On Our Conservative Youth,” in a special issue of the Yale student newspaper

My first experience of Passover came the spring after our wedding. My wife is Jewish, and she signed us up for the Yale Hillel Seder, a large affair of...

In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent piece, “Merkel’s Country” from the March 2025 issue of the magazine. The conversation...

In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent piece, “Elon’s Family Values” from the April 2025 issue of the magazine. The...