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The Church of the Left
Yuval Levin has an interesting commentary at the blog of National Review. It’s entitled “The Church of the Left,”…
Conference on ISIS & Religious Cleansing
Next month, the Hudson Institute will host an important event in New York, “The Islamic State’s Religious…
Pro-Life or Pro-Information?
Amy Julia Becker is a writer and mother of a child with Down syndrome. For several years…
First Links—4.17.15
Neverending Story Kaelene Wilson-Goldie, Artforum EU Accuses Google of Hurting Customers, Competitors in Web Search Case Alastair…
Literary Patterns in Genesis
It’s not clear how much rethinking Gordon Wenham has done to produce his Rethinking Genesis 1-11. After all,…
Renewing the Mainline
Ronald Byars knows that mainline churches are in trouble, and in Finding Our Balance, he lays out a…
Spirituality of Maps
Lisa Deam’s A World Transformed is an engaging, meditative study of what she calls the “spirituality of medieval…
The Limits of Responsibility
I recently attended a small conference in Washington, DC, co–sponsored by the New America Foundation (NAF), a…
A Letter to Pope Francis
Your Holiness: I recall with pleasure and gratitude my visit to the Vatican in November and your…
First Links—4.16.15
Economists Still Think Economics Is the Best Moises Naim, The Atlantic Probing the Heart of French Malaise…
Ownership v. Gratitude
Our very existence is gift. That means that our very existence involves participation in the life of…
In Defense of Kitsch
We should, Paul Griffiths says (Decreation, 324–5), be careful about the aesthetic judgments we make: “every human…
The Materiality of Hell
As recorded in the supplement to the Summa, Thomas Aquinas teaches that the damned will rise again…
Epistemo-technics
In his Organizing Enlightenment, Chad Wellmon explains how the modern research university was a response to a crisis…
Policy Multiple Choice Quiz
My fellow conservatives, which of the following sets of policies is best designed to win over a…
