
Lurid and Marginal
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and it has been terrible for us in sexual terms.” Now here is the book to prove it, and you could not find a…
March 2025
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March 2025 Print Edition

America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
Large Language Poetry
The Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up…
The Age of De-Globalization
Annex Greenland! Take back the Panama Canal! Canada as the fifty-first state! Speaking at an early January…
Biden Is the New Francis
Early in 2016, articles began to appear noting similarities between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. Trump’s promise…
Covenantal Capitalism
One recent afternoon, while visiting Universal Studios, I found myself seriously contemplating socialism. I was standing in…

Conversations
Fiction and Last Things
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cassandra Nelson joins in to discuss her recent book, A Theology of Fiction. The conversation is embedded…

The Editor’s Desk
Brave New World Conservatism
In this episode, Nathan Pinkoski joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his book review “Paleofuturism” from the February 2024 issue of the magazine. The conversation is…

Conversations
Cicero the Comedian
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Fontaine joins in to discuss his recent translations, How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide…
How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation
Mr. Merz, Tear Down This Firewall
The evening before the German parliamentary elections, I saw a young man drop his empty beverage can…
Pope Francis and “Selective Indignation”
Last month, the chief rabbi of Rome accused Pope Francis of “selective indignation” in his comments about…
Putting Americans in Iron Lungs Again?
The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services…
The Communist Origins of Europe’s “Hate Speech” Crisis
Following Vice President JD Vance’s groundbreaking speech at the Munich Security Conference, the world is awakening to…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
Dostoevsky’s Credo
What does it mean to believe something? Is it possible for a person to profess an idea…
Finding Faith in the Fragments
When your parents were married for seventeen years before you were born, as mine were, you spend…
Necessary Societies
On the Dignity of Society is an anthology of Russell Hittinger’s previously published articles, organized into three…
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
Merkelʼs Country
German readers have a powerful appetite for doorstop political autobiographies, gossip-filled 600- and 700-page apologias by major…
The End of March
Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike,…
Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet
Nature and history have made us what we are, fat hapless amateurs stranded some ninety million miles from the nearest…
Birds of the Air
Look— crimson berries for songbirds, writhing worms for red-breasted early birds, swarming mice and astonished doves plucked…
A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
Death in Naples
The taxi driver shouted, “Tell us! Tell us!” when his other passenger, a local journalist, announced that…
Immigration Idealism
For much of my life, I believed in open borders. Aside from violent criminals, I could think…
Harry Potter’s Magic
By now most readers in this country are aware of what has come to be called the…
A Jewish Theology of Resurrection
Does Judaism need a theology of Christianity? The usual answer is no: Whereas without Jews and Judaism…
Alexander Dugin Explained
Many sense that the West needs to reconsider its philosophical foundations. Reflexive appeals to old pieties no…