Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Israel: The Longer View
On the face of it, the latest Israeli general election, which took place on March 23, was…
Following John
Easter makes everything new. John’s Gospel tells us that even time and space are now reconfigured. The…
A Victory for Reality
Karl Marx looked at the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century and declared that all that was…
American Honor Culture
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jon A. Shields joins…
Abortion is Unconstitutional
Begin with Blackstone’s Commentaries,” wrote presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in 1860, when asked how to get a…
Anti-Religious Education
I spent the first thirty years of my adult life fighting racial injustice in America. I was a…
At Home on Revolutionary Road
One of the hoariest clichés of American popular culture is anti-suburban sentiment. Common throughout literature, film, and…
Bread of Poverty
In the Bible, the week-long holiday of Passover is usually called the festival of unleavened bread (matzot).…
Gnostic Politics
I recently met a medical student who was beginning her rotation in internal medicine. A special morning session…
Masters and Slaves
In the autumn of 1933, Alexandre Kojève announced to his class that history was over. He did…
Music That Is Never Heard
One of the most haunting images I know of comes from the last days of James Simon,…
The Gospel According to Dickens
In the popular understanding of Christmas, Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella looms large. A Christmas Carol seems to…
The Virtue of Jealousy
Jealousy is often confused with envy. Envy is coveting something someone else possesses. It is one of…
Woke Religion
American Awakening:Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Timeby joshua mitchell encounter, 296 pages, $28.99 We Americans…
Unborn Persons: Why Equal Protection Slept 102 Years
Defending my argument that the unborn are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…
