Public Life
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Exposing the Unseriousness of Elite Irreligion
When I was in seventh grade, a girl at my New York private school told our history…
Resisting Presentism
C . S. Lewis warned against the danger of presentism. It’s a distinctly modern vice. We are…
Preach For America
Awoman, sitting behind the wheel of her car, is hollering. She’s alternating between “why, why, why,” and…
Christianity and Civilization
The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus…
Cities for Humans
You get the best first impression of Poundbury on a bright summer’s afternoon, when the air is…
Against Christian Civilization
The last time I was in America, which was last autumn, I visited the battlefield at Little…
Letters – January 2025
Streaming The Word I appreciated Fr. Lusvardi’s excellent and most thoughtful article “Screens and Sacraments” (November 2024),…
Keep the Stigma Against Suicide
Last week, the U.K. came a step closer to legalizing assisted suicide. Except that proponents were careful…
Lady Scrooges
I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
Thanksgiving and American Audacity
A little over three decades ago, I was celebrating Thanksgiving with my extended family and a close…
Night of the World
Martin Heidegger is notorious for his embrace of Nazism in the 1930s. Yet he was a luminous…
Assisted Suicide and the Politics of Fear
How can Britain’s assisted suicide bill, which comes before the House of Commons on Friday, possibly fail?…
The Truth Is in the Classics
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Paul Krause joins in to…
