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A selection of recent articles on this topic
What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?
Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved.…
Our Outdated Debates
Could the intensity of America’s abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying…
Protecting the Public Square
When the First Things junior fellowship brought me to New York City last summer, Jane Jacobs was…
Opening Up the World
I am in Portsmouth, Rhode Island this weekend, attending “Being Human: Christian Perspectives on the Human Person,” an…
Open Marriages, Closed Hearts
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine asked, “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?”…
A Report from Morningside
I just wrapped up my undergraduate career at Columbia University. It was a strange time to be…
In Defense of Educational Administrators
The ongoing campus chaos in the United States has elicited both cries of despair over the behavior…
Reflections on Being the Dumbest Man in the Room
Last week I had the pleasure of attending a conference at Princeton University celebrating the life and…
A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth
The news came as a shock, but turned into an outpouring of love and affection, reminiscences and…
The Art of Verbal Jousting
In the past few weeks, things blew up at Duke Divinity School. Paul Griffiths launched a salvo…
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…
The War on Tenure
If you think the threats to our freedom are primarily external, you haven’t been paying attention. In…
The Saul Complex
Saul’s three sins (1 Samuel 13-15) correspond to the sins of Adam, Cain, and the sons of…
Killer Show
Thirteen Reasons Why begins just after high school sophomore Hannah Baker has killed herself. Over the course…
“I Just Want Her To Be Happy”
The Science Talent Search is the leading science competition for American high school students. It’s often referred…