Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Western Muslims for Public Christianity
In Europe, barely a week goes by without news of another public or private institution ridding itself…
Meeting the World to Convert the World
In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the…
Democracy Needs Religion—but Which?
German sociologist Hartmut Rosa characterizes modernity as the product of a triple acceleration. Technology speeds up movement…
Safety Third
"At State Football, Safety Is Our #1 Priority!” So declares a banner appended to a social media…
The Fight to Stop Euthanasia for Mental Illness
In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle’s worth of pills in a public…
Proud to Be an American?
This July Fourth, you may have attended a local parade. If it was anything like mine, you…
Religious Exemptions Beyond Religious Curiosities?
On July 21, plaintiffs in Kane v. City of New York asked the Supreme Court to review…
The Summer Reading List, 2025 Edition
Some years ago, a friend teaching at a state university told me that he was offering a…
The Crazy Train Is Decommissioned
John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne’s farewell show, performed on July 5, was explicitly patriarchal. His musical descendants—“hard” groups…
Coldplaygate and the Case for Public Judgment
On July 16, Andy Byron, the CEO of a medium-sized software company, attended a Coldplay concert in…
No, Churches Still May Not Endorse Political Candidates
In the latest example of journalists and the online commentariat misstating the nuances of a high-stakes legal…
Abolishing Ourselves
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…
A Straight Line to the Pulpit: The Legacy of John MacArthur
In the middle of the twentieth century, with suburbs and churches exploding with intensity, novelist Peter De…
Make Abortion Great Again?
On July Fourth weekend, a photograph made the rounds on social media. Cynthia Nixon, the actress and…
The King and the Swarm
The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of…
