Arts & Letters

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Against Smartphones

Michael Toscano

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, appears uncowed by Big Tech. Inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s new book…

The GOP Changes Its Tune on Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2017, Kellyanne Conway took the stage at the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., to…

Augustine’s Apocalypse—and Our Own

Peter J. Leithart

Composed in the aftermath of the Visigoth sack of Rome, Augustine’s City of God seems to have…

Erasing Christianity in France

Charlotte Allen

In early March, the organizing committee for the upcoming Paris Olympics released its official promotional poster, featuring…

Against Cosmic Melancholia

George Weigel

On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral…

The Gateway Drug to Post-Christian Paganism

Carl R. Trueman

I recently revisited a book that I had not read for many years: Robert P. Ericksen’s Theologians…

Defying Our Culture’s Fear of Death

Mateusz Stróżyński

On September 10, 2023, Pope Francis beatified Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, along with their seven children. The…

What Joe Lieberman Taught Me

Jeff Ballabon

Since the recent passing of Senator Joe Lieberman, many have testified to his humanity, decency, and integrity—his…

When Ideology and Blasphemy Meet

George Weigel

In May 1993, the “World Russian People’s Council,” a “meeting place” for those “concerned about the present…

Cabrini’s Empire of Hope

Jacob Adams

The beautifully shot film Cabrini, released at the beginning of March, explores a forgotten piece of New…

Free the Children

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by timothy…

Easter, Creation, and Holiness

George Weigel

What came first: creation, or God’s covenants with the People of Israel and the New Israel, the…

The World that Google Wants to See

Michael Toscano

If Big Tech companies have observed anything about human nature in their rise to economic, political, and…

Next Steps for the U.S. Church After the Vatican Financial Scandal

Brendan Wilson

Nearly two years ago, the Vatican began its historic prosecution of Cardinal Angelo Becciu and other defendants…

The Space Between

Sarah Rossiter

How to describe what can’t be seen, invisible, yet universal, what is, has been, will always be,…