Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
True and False Reconciliation
In early July, Vladimir Putin toured an Orthodox church in St. Petersburg, piously crossed himself, and lit…
Living by Proxy in the Age of AI
As the fall semester approaches, professors are wondering how they should respond to the use of AI,…
Losing Their Religion
Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America by stephen bullivant oxford, 272 pages, $29.95 Nonverts—people who once identified…
Why Conservatives Keep Bending the Knee to Gay Rights
Buoyed by the successful Bud Light boycott and Target’s removal of Pride-themed merchandise due to customer backlash, many conservatives…
Rooting Out the Weeds
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How Assisted Suicide Destroys the Loved Ones Left Behind
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First Things: The Standard-Bearer for Orthodoxy
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In Defense of the Philosopher King
He’s a sponsor of esoteric philosophy, a patron of traditional arts, and an ardent layer of hedgerows.…
Anti-Zionism Goes Woke
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by daniel boyarin yale university, 200 pages, $30 Like a starving…
What ChatGPT Can’t Do
I’d forgotten nearly everything about my years in school, which, given my mild allergic reaction to sclerotic…
Easter Bodies
The resurrection of Jesus is the center of Christian faith. If Christ is not raised, Paul says,…
Easter and History
Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to…
Briefly Noted — 4/23
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by andrea wulf knopf, 512 pages,…
What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
Mark Bauerlein Contributing Editor Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education has an unfortunate pertinence to 2023 America, at least to the…
Taking the Founders at Their Word
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding by…
