The Surprising Stability of Americans’ Moral Attitudes

by Michael J. New

Gallup shows that public opinion has not shifted with recent policy changes on same-sex relations or doctor-assisted suicide. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016 0

What We've Been Reading—6.10.16

by Editors

I'm going to break protocol and tell you about what I've been watching. But what I've been watching happens to be hyper-hypertextual: Rodney Ascher's Room 237 is a geeked-out documentary about a prestige horror film, reminding us how prestige can precipitate (or arise from? or consist of?) a fever of discourse. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016 0

Confessions to Father Newman

by Brian Doyle

“I would suggest that you not consider marriage again until you are at least ten years old.” Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016 0

Axis America

by David Randall

Amazon serializes The Man in the High Castle, the Philip K. Dick novel that asked: What would we be like if we had lost World War II? Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2016 0

The Meaning of Ali

by R. R. Reno

Boxer, braggart, trickster, trumper. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2016 0

First Things, a Lifeline

by R. R. Reno

Ideas have consequences. They are also vehicles of truth, and of uplift. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2016 0

Politics of Resentment?

by Carl R. Trueman

A response to Greg Forster. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2016 0

Trump's Identity Politics

by R. R. Reno

Many have described Donald Trump as a bully. His verbal assaults on Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel certainly fit that description. Curiel is overseeing a law suit against the now-defunct Trump University. Things aren't going Trump's way, it seems. And so, instead of calling the judge “stupid” or . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2016 0

The Benedict Option as Culture War

by Greg Forster

It's not disengagement from politics; it's a continuation of the culture war's bad politics. Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2016 0

Songs of Exile

by Alexi Sargeant

Where has all the dark Christian music gone? It doesn’t take much listening to notice how blithe and breezy popular Christian music has become. At the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight, Leah Libresco has run the numbers and found that the lyrics of recent Christian hits skew towards life, . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2016 0