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Time Travel from Your Own Basement

John Wilson

Earlier this month, one of our closest friends sent me a lovely birthday card that included a…

Growing Pains

Wells King

Post Growth:Life After Capitalismby tim jacksonpolity, 256 pages, $19.95 Less is More:How Degrowth Will Save the Worldby…

Pitiful Pride

Carl R. Trueman

It is doubtful that there is anyone in the United States who is unaware that June is…

Catholic Schools: Our National Treasure

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cara Candal joins the…

Journalism for Literacy

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Peter Meyer joins the…

Economic and Immanent Trinity

Hans Boersma

Christians need to learn only two lessons. No more, no less. Jesus himself provides this basic Christian…

Faith and Hope in Hong Kong

David Mulroney

Defying the Dragon:Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorshipby stephen vines hurst, 352 pages, $31.20 Early on…

Examining Modernity

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Sohrab Ahmari…

Immersion in Anniversaries

Raymond J. de Souza

For years there was a single cobblestone in St. Peter’s Square that was painted red, marking the…

America and Armenia

Mark Movsesian

On April 24, in the annual White House statement commemorating the deaths of up to 1.5 million…

Not Talkin’ About My Generation

James Matthew Wilson

Helen Andrews’s insightful and hilarious Boomers has gotten me thinking about the whole idea of generations. For…

Identity Politics, Opium of the People

Carl R. Trueman

Identity politics is the new religion of the United States. Some will dissent from this claim. There…

Liberal Education for Conservatives

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jonathan Marks joins the podcast…

Plunging in with Barth

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. First Things editor R.…

New World From Water

Peter J. Leithart

The gospel begins with John preaching baptism and ends with Jesus commanding baptism. For two millennia, baptism…