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Elon Musk cannonballed into electoral politics in 2024. Other tech bros joined him to support Donald Trump. The alliance is remarkable. Heretofore no aspect of Silicon Valley seemed congenial...

President Biden recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to nineteen worthies, celebrities, activists, and politicians (some faded, others dead). Fashion industry heavyweights figured prominently this year. Ralph Lauren...

R. R. Reno I was in a Goodwill in Denver when my eyes fell upon a paperback Penguin edition of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. I bought it, and while...

C . S. Lewis warned against the danger of presentism. It’s a distinctly modern vice. We are seduced by the conceit of “progress,” which induces a haughty disregard for...

The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus Lecture in late October. It was one of the most bracing and...

Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom” in a recent book by that name, described as democratic politics in a constitutional...

Sarah McBride was elected to Congress on November 5. As the Democratic candidate in Delaware, the result should have been a no-news story, an inevitable outcome in that one-party...

In this episode, First Things Patricia Snow joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her essay “Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution” from the November 2024 print edition...

Religious believers breathed sighs of relief on Wednesday morning. Religious liberty was not a significant issue in the Trump campaign.

Liberals and conservatives disagree less about principles than we often imagine. (It’s common for intellectually inclined, theory-­informed people to interpret disagreements about policy as matters of principle.) For example,...

In this episode, First Things Patricia Snow joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her essay “Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution” from the November 2024 print edition...

Christianity is cropping up in unexpected places. This summer, Jordan Peterson chatted with Elon Musk. In his inimitable way, Peterson digressed into the long-dead religions of Mesopotamia, tying ancient...

In this episode, Ryan T. Anderson joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his article “The Way Forward After Dobbs” from the October 2024 print edition...

In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his article “Clint Eastwood’s Law” from the October 2024 print edition of the magazine. Please...

I’m slotting a small metal chock behind a rock flake. I reach down to pull up the rope I’m tied into and clip it to the carabiner, the metal...