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How Science Trumped Materialism (ft. Michel-Yves Bollorรฉ)
In the โlatest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michel-Yves Bollorรฉ joins in to discuss his recent book, God, the Science, the Evidence. The...
The Clash Within Western Civilization
The Trump administrationโs National Security Strategy (NSS) was released in early December. It generated an unusual amount of commentary. Many responded with a reflexively anti-Trump reading of the document....
The Wallet
Oxblood, bifold, keptย In a back bedroomCloset all these years, It dates to my timeย Of adolescence,ย And has the same nearย Emptiness, the sameย Lightness in the hand,As those eclectic Years do...
The Rise and Fall of Gay Activism
The Pride flag is progressive Americaโs banner. Before it was ยญunfurled, most gays stayed in the closet. With the advent of Pride, they became out and proud. Over time,...
The Failure of Bioethics
When in April of 2025 the Hastings Center for Bioethics (the oldest bioethics think tank in this country) revealed its new five-year strategic plan, one of six โvaluesโ specified...
Postliberalism and Theology
After my musings about postliberalism went to the press last month (โWhat Does โPostliberalismโ Mean?โ, January 2026), a friend drew my attention to a recent essay by David W....
Letters
As a forty-eight-year-old who graduated from high school in 1995, Trevin Waxโs โWe Were Jesus Freaksโ...
The Lonely Passion of Reginald Pole
A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the days and weeks following my...
Cancer and the Cure of Souls
I have cancer,โ the elderly woman ยญannounced from her hospital bed high above York Avenue in Manhattan. โBut cancer is not the sickness. Cancer is the cure. Because cancer...
Mark Twain’s Religion
In 2014, when Kevin Maloneโs opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers by Richard Dawkins. It was a fitting choice. Funded in part by...
In the Footsteps of Aeneas
Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of ยญAeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, in his escape from the conquered city of Troy....
AI as Liberation
You can learn everything you need to know about our collective state of mind from the fact that the most talked-about book of the year is titled If Anyone...
Christmas Nationalism
Writing for UnHerd, Felix Pope reported on a December 13 Christmas celebration organized by the English nationalist Tommy ยญRobinson. It involved a procession from Trafalgar Square to ยญWhitehall, where...
A Tale of Two Maybes
Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish notโ (Jon. 3:9). These words, spoken by the king of Nineveh, are often...
While Weโre At It
The Bible is flying off the shelves. Sales of the Good Book spiked 20 percent inโฆ