October 2024

The Campus Ministry Boom
In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring:…
The Way Forward After Dobbs
It has been two years since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade. It…
Fellow Travelers
Christianity is cropping up in unexpected places. This summer, Jordan Peterson chatted with Elon Musk. In his…
Constructing Conservatism
Conservatives rightly recognize that the common good, and thus a coherent politics, requires a shared definition of…
Machine
The American modernist poet E. E. Cummings ended up as a somewhat lonely, politically conservative Unitarian. It…
Letters – October 2024
Middle Game Tactics Thank you for hosting the post-Dobbs symposium (“Pro-Life Politics After Dobbs,” June/July) of observations…
Progressive Supersessionism
Leftist attacks on Zionism, which in many quarters have devolved into overt anti-Semitism, seem strange alongside the…
Clint Eastwood’s Law
In the course of his seven-decade career, Clint Eastwood has come to be identified with a single…
The Screwtape Election
How to make sense of the upcoming presidential election? Those of us reared on reason, logic, and…
The Myth of Technological Neutrality
The status of crank is rarely remitted in the span of ten years, but that is what…
Briefly Noted — 10/24
Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Mattersby carmen joy imesintervarsity academic, 248 pages, $22.99 Don’t set your…
Hannah and Her Resisters
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendts Lessons in Love and Disobedienceby lyndsey stonebridge hogarth, 368…
You Better Believe It
Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identityby carl r.…
Guerrilla Culture War
The War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its Historyby frank furedipolity, 240 pages,…
Common Sense Tragedy
Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princetonby richard e. burnetteerdmans, 638 pages, $45.99…
Not a Lament but an Ode to the Makers
Someone somewhere long ago with a pair of hands, a bit of earthand a thirsty…
Gather Ye
Second Place — 2024 First Things Poetry Prize
At the Graveside
Based on Philip Melanchthon’s epitaph for his son, Georg
Two Owls
First Place — 2024 First Things Poetry Prize